Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian, was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."
Though conservative, he did originate and advance new theology to the early Church. He is perhaps most famous for being the oldest extant Latin writer to use the term Trinity, and giving the oldest extant formal exposition of a Trinitarian theology. Other Latin formulations that first appear in his work are "three Persons, one Substance" as the Latin "tres Personae, una Substantia". He wrote his trinitarian formula after becoming a Montanist. However, unlike many Church fathers, he was never canonized by the Catholic Church, as several of his later teachings directly contradicted the teachings of the Church.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Fear is the foundation of safety.