Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3 (Latin Christianity: Tertullian, Apologetic and Anti-Marcion works)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 2 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~910,000 words · 4,340 passages
Cite this work
- APATertullian. (n.d.). Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3 (Latin Christianity: Tertullian, Apologetic and Anti-Marcion works). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tertullian/ante-nicene-fathers-vol-3-latin-christianity-tertullian-apologetic-and-anti-marcion-works
- MLATertullian. Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3 (Latin Christianity: Tertullian, Apologetic and Anti-Marcion works). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tertullian/ante-nicene-fathers-vol-3-latin-christianity-tertullian-apologetic-and-anti-marcion-works.
- ChicagoTertullian. Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3 (Latin Christianity: Tertullian, Apologetic and Anti-Marcion works). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tertullian/ante-nicene-fathers-vol-3-latin-christianity-tertullian-apologetic-and-anti-marcion-works.
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What it is about
Tertullian's apologetic works and the books against Marcion, in the English translation of the Ante-Nicene Fathers series.
Context and history
Tertullian is the first major Christian author to write in Latin, and much of the vocabulary Western Christianity would later use — starting with 'trinitas' — comes from him. Against Marcion has a further value as a source: Marcion wanted a Bible without the Old Testament, and nearly all we know of him comes from the man refuting him. Late in life Tertullian went over to Montanism, which is why he has never been declared a saint.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
The editor-in-chief will continue his annotations and the usual prefaces, in Professor Riddle's volume, but will be relieved, in some degree, of the laborious and minute attention to details which earlier volumes have necessarily exacted. It is needful to remind the reader that he possesses in this volume what has long been a desideratum among divines. The crabbed Latin of the great Tertullian has been thought to defy translation: and the variety and uncertain dates of his works have rendered classification and arrangement almost an equal difificulty. But here is the work achieved by competent hands, and now, for the first time, reduced to orderly and methodical plan. We have little doubt that the student on comparing our edition with that of the Edinburgh Series, will congratulate himself on the great gain of the arrangement; and we trust the original matter with which it is illustrated may be found not less acceptable. Contents of Volume III. THE WRITINGS OF TERTULLIAN. PAGB INTRODUCTORY NOTE i PART FIRST. ^ y II. ON IDOLATRY 61 ^ xIII. THE SHOWS, OR DE SPECTACULIS 79 IV. THE CHAPLET, OR DE CORONA 93 V. TO SCAPULA 105 VI. AD NATIONES 109 APPENDIX, FRAGMENT 149 VII. AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS 151 s^VIII. THE SOUL'S TESTIMONY .^ 175 -^ IX. A TREATISE ON THE SOUL «/ 181 • PART SECOND. I. THE PRESCRIPTION AGAINST HERETICS . . . . .^ 245-.. II. VTHE FIVE BOOKS AGAINST MARCION '^ . 269 Book I. 271 Book III. 321 Book IV 345 Book V. 429