RT Article
T1 Tertullian’s Case for the Christiani Creatoris in Adversus Marcionem
JF Journal of theological interpretation
VO 16
IS 1
SP 1
OP 22
A1 Pierce, Alexander H.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1816935530
AB In offering a close reading of Tertullian’s Adversus Marcionem 3-4, the present essay contends that Tertullian supports his belief that Christians are the proper continuation of God’s people in history by making a case for Christian separation from the Jews as the fulfillment of scriptural prophecy. Tertullian’s reading of the Creator’s Scriptures is his exegetical basis for forming a logic of separation between Christians and the chosen Jewish nation. This differentiation does not require an ontological bifurcation of the Creator and the God revealed in Jesus. Rather, God the Creator and Father of Jesus reveals this distinction in the operation of his providence in history and in Scripture. It is in this very separation that Christians fulfill the prophecies of the Creator God of the Hebrew Bible and religion.
K1 Marcion
K1 Tertullian
K1 "parting of the ways"
K1 "rule of faith"
K1 Apologetics
K1 Exegesis
K1 heresiology
K1 Prophecy
DO 10.5325/jtheointe.16.1.0001