Tertullian on the Trinity

Tertullian is often portrayed as a prescient figure who accurately anticipated the Nicene consensus about the Trinity. But when he is examined against the background of his immediate predecessors, he falls into place as a typical second-century Logos theologian. He drew especially from Theophilus of...

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Main Author: Litfin, Bryan M. 1970- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sciendo, De Gruyter [2019]
In: Perichoresis
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-98
IxTheo Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Trinity
B Praxeas
B Substance
B Logos
B Person
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