Quo peruersius quid dici potest? Tertullian’s De anima and Its Reception in the Literature and Thought of the Early Church

This paper examines in detail the reception history of Tertullian’s treatise De anima in the later literature and thought of the early church, the two key theological concepts, introduced in De anima and which subsequently found wider resonance, being the corporeality of the human soul and its trans...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kitzler, Petr 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Year: 2025, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 244-267
Further subjects:B Augustine
B Soul music
B Traducianism
B Corporealism
B Tertullian
B De anima
B Jerome
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002c 4500
001 1941565530
003 DE-627
005 20251222105624.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 251119s2025 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1515/zac-2025-0016  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1941565530 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1941565530 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)1063139503  |0 (DE-627)810633655  |0 (DE-576)267112394  |4 aut  |a Kitzler, Petr  |d 1979- 
109 |a Kitzler, Petr 1979- 
245 1 0 |a Quo peruersius quid dici potest? Tertullian’s De anima and Its Reception in the Literature and Thought of the Early Church 
264 1 |c 2025 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a This paper examines in detail the reception history of Tertullian’s treatise De anima in the later literature and thought of the early church, the two key theological concepts, introduced in De anima and which subsequently found wider resonance, being the corporeality of the human soul and its transmission ex traduce . Since Augustine included Tertullian in De haeresibus , Tertullian was considered, strictly speaking, a heretic (the first signs of the reserve towards the Carthaginian being detectable since the mid-fourth century), and his name was only seldom mentioned by later authors. However, both of his aforementioned concepts, elaborated in De anima as adaptations of originally Stoic heritage, found a wider, albeit not very sympathetic response, especially in Jerome, one of the few known admirers of Tertullian in late antiquity, and in Augustine himself. Although Jerome’s predilection for Tertullian only seldom implied a deeper interest in the content of his writings in general, he must have been familiar with De anima : from it he borrowed some isolated, pointed statements, plus the notion of the traducianist transmission of the human soul, which he touches upon several times in his own writings. One cannot ignore their Tertullian heritage. Augustine, on the other hand, had studied Tertullian’s treatise thoroughly, and while he was critical towards Tertullian in general and especially towards his corporealism, De anima served not only as a catalyst for his own reflections on the origin of the soul (with his perpetual hesitation between creationism and traducianism) but probably also as a loose inspiration for his own explanations regarding the soul in De Genesi ad litteram . 
601 |a Literatur 
650 4 |a Augustine 
650 4 |a Corporealism 
650 4 |a De anima 
650 4 |a Jerome 
650 4 |a Soul 
650 4 |a Tertullian 
650 4 |a Traducianism 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum  |d Berlin [u.a] : De Gruyter, 1997  |g 29(2025), 2, Seite 244-267  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)330065246  |w (DE-600)2049668-0  |w (DE-576)094531757  |x 1612-961X  |7 nnas 
773 1 8 |g volume:29  |g year:2025  |g number:2  |g pages:244-267 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2025-0016  |x Resolving-System  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext  |7 1 
856 4 0 |u https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/zac-2025-0016/html  |x Verlag  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext  |7 1 
935 |a BiBIL 
951 |a AR 
BIB |a 1 
ELC |a 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 4808490900 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1941565530 
LOK |0 005 20251119085356 
LOK |0 008 251119||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a ixzo 
LOK |0 939   |a 19-11-25  |b l01 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 4832318799 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1941565530 
LOK |0 005 20251222105624 
LOK |0 008 251222||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135-5  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135-5 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135-5 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a lsix  |a aela 
LOK |0 939   |a 22-12-25  |b l01 
ORI |a TA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw 
STA 0 0 |a Soul music 
STB 0 0 |a Soul music 
STC 0 0 |a Música soul 
STD 0 0 |a Soul,Soul 
STF 0 0 |a 靈魂樂 
STG 0 0 |a Música soul 
STH 0 0 |a Соул 
STI 0 0 |a Σόουλ 
SUB |a BIB