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9780511582882
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Tertullian was the first western Christian to write theology, defending Christians against the hostility of the Roman state, as well as arguing against Marcion, Praxeas and theosophical fantasy. A complex thinker, Tertullian has, in the modern era, been rejected by both liberal Christianity and its secular critics. But his ideas have become more accessible in our century, which has seen the destruction of Enlightenment beliefs that reason should lead to a quasi-mathematical system. The work of Gödel, Wittgenstein, Rorty and so many others has opened up the way for an understanding of Tertullian's passion for opposites, contingency and rational argument. For a long time misquoted and misused, Tertullian now calls for sustained analysis and interpretation. This book offers a major reappraisal of his theology and its influence on the shape of the western Christian tradition.
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1. Simplicity and perfection -- 2. puzzle: Athens and Jerusalem -- 3. paradox: credible because inept -- 4. Strife of opposites and faith as recognition -- 5. Antithesis in one God: 'Against Marcion' -- 6. Trinity and christology -- 7. Prayer and the bible -- 8. Mankind's two natures and a sordid church -- 9. Argument and humour: Hermogenes and the Valentinians -- 10. Promise of laughter, judgement of hell: apocalypse and system -- 11. Ethics of conflict.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521524957
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521590358
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521590358
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521524957
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Osborn, Eric, 1922 - 2007 Tertullian, first theologian of the West Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 0521590353
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521590358
Language:
English
Keywords:
Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius Florens 150-230
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511582882
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