Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian (ca. 160 – ca. 220 A.D.), 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".
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 (Latin trinitas), 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" (itself from the Koine Greek "treis Hypostases, Homoousios"). Some of Tertullian's ideas were not acceptable to the orthodox Church; in later life he became a Montanist.
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| Born | ca. 160 |
| Died | ca. 220 |
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![Cover of: The writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus: [with the extant works of Victorinus and Commodianus]](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6782361-M.jpg "Cover of: The writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus: [with the extant works of Victorinus and Commodianus]")
| Born | ca. 160 |
| Died | ca. 220 |
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Early works to 1800, History, Apologetics, Theology, Religious aspects, Christianity, Ouvrages avant 1800, Latin Sermons, Aspect religieux, Chastity, Enseignement patristique, Christianisme, Early Christian literature, Early church, Marriage, Penance, Religious aspects of Marriage, Sources, Trinity, Christian Heresies, History of doctrines, Mariage, Authority, Baptism, Catholic ChurchPeople
Marcion of Sinope (2nd cent), Tertullian (ca. 160-ca. 230), Hermogenes the heretic (fl. ca. 200), Hippolytus Antipope (ca. 170-235 or 6), Marcion of Singapore (ca. 30-600), Marcion, of Sinope (2nd cent), Praxeas (2nd century)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL136419A
- ISNI: 0000000122834506
- VIAF: 100226395
- Wikidata: Q174929
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q174929
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- Tertullianus
- Tertullian
- Tertullien
- Quintus Septimius F . Tertullianus
- Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus
- Quintus Tertullian
- Florens Quintus Septmius Tertullian
- Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian
- Quintus Tertullianus Florens Septimius
- Quinto Septimio Florente Tertuliano
- Tertuliano
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