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Clear searchTertullian · Apologetic, doctrinal, and practical treatises · c. 197–220
A large and varied body of early Latin Christian writing which defends believers before Roman society, answers pagan and doctrinal opponents, develops arguments about God and Christ, and presses Christians towards serious holy living.
View recommendation →Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
…uishes God’s commands from other statutes. In verses 18–19, God warns the next generation against following their fathers’ statutes and idols, directing them instead to His own ordinances. Verse 24 then explains the judgement: they rejected His statutes, desecrated His Sabbaths,…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…e air". He describes what Christ prepared for His people as "this ascension into heaven" (Against Marcion, V.15). In On the Resurrection of the Flesh (41-42), he distinguishes the dead who rise from believers found alive in the flesh. The latter are transformed, put on immortalit…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…meet the Lord in the air" and described their destination as an "ascension into heaven" (Against Marcion, V.15). In On the Resurrection of the Flesh (41-42), he distinguished believers raised from death from those found alive in the flesh. The living undergo transformation, put…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…logical argument also hardened at times into collective accusation and degrading rhetoric against Jewish people. Other evidence complicates the story. Writers who spiritualised Israel's promises could still expect a future Jewish conversion. Some anticipated a rebuilt Jewish temp…
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