Tertullianist

Definitions

An adherent of the teachings of early Christian theologian Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c.155-c.240 CE).

historical

Examples

“2007, William Tabbernee, Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, Koninklijke Brill (Brill), page 268, Even Augustine's contact⟳ with the Tertullianists appears to have⟳ been slight. Could Augustine's assessment of the Tertullianists, therefore, have⟳ been inaccurate?”

“Christian learning must accordingly be Tertullianist learning. Tertullianist as well as Clementine — Clementine as well as Tertullianist.”

“Augustine's indication that Tertullian himself founded the Tertullianists as a splinter group from the Carthaginian Montanists is unlikely. It is possible that the term ‘Tertullianist’ was a synonym for African Montanists, or that the Tertullianists were a sect within Carthaginian Montanism, or even that the Tertullianists did not identify⟳ themselves as Montanists at all.”

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