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TERTULLIAN (lived c. AD 160-225)
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Ante – Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1, page 263

 

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The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, (ibid., 1999), page 965: “Tertullian (c.160-c.225), Christian father. He was born in Carthage and became a Christian before 197. He was the first important Christian writer in Latin … He eventually left the Catholic Church in favour of Montanism. His Apology (c.197) has the typical concerns of the Apologists of the time, resting on the view that there is a natural basis for the recognition of God’s action in Christ … ”

 

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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, (fifteenth edition, 2002 [first edition 1768]) Vol. 11, pages 652-3: “Tertullian, Latin in full Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus (b. c.155/160, Carthage [now in Tunisia] – d. after 220, Carthage0, important early Christian theologian … As a historical personage Tertullian is known less for what he did than for what he wrote. The range of his interests and the vigour with which he pursued them, however, encouraged other Christians to explore previously uninvestigated areas of life and thought. Like his contemporaries, he wrote works in defense of the faith … Sometime before 210 Tertullian left the orthodox church to join a new prophetic sectarian movement known as Montanism … He eventually broke with them to found his own sect … In antiquity most Christians never forgave him for his apostasy … In the 19th and 20th centuries Tertullian has been widely read and studied and is considered one of the formative figures in the development of Christian life and thought in the West.”

 

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TATIAN (lived c. AD 110-172)
- Apologist -
The Ante – Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2, page 74
Tatian the Assyrian – a student of Justin Martyr in Rome; christian apologist and evangelist to the Greeks; turned to apostasy near the end of his life, falling under Gnostic influence :

 

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