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De Carne Christi (c. 203–206, 'On the Flesh of Christ ') is a polemical work by Tertullian against the Gnostic Docetism of Marcion, Apelles, Valentinus and Alexander. It purports that the body of Christ was a real human body, born from the virginal body of Mary , but not by way of human procreation.
Credo quia absurdum is a Latin phrase that means "I believe because it is absurd", originally misattributed to Tertullian in his De Carne Christi.It is believed to be a paraphrasing of Tertullian's "prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est" which means "it is completely credible because it is unsuitable", or "certum est, quia impossibile" which means "it is certain because it is impossible".
De Carne Christi (English: On the Body of Christ) (c. 206) by Tertullian; Contra Celsum (English: Against Celsus) (c. 248) by Origen of Alexandria [5] De viris illustribus (English: On Illustrious Men) (c.392-3) by Jerome; Apology Against Rufinus (402) by Jerome; On the Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius
Tertullian is said to have held to a view similar to the Protestant priesthood of all believers [56] [dubious – discuss] and that the distinction of the clergy and the laity is only because of ecclesiastical institution and thus in an absence of a priest the laity can act as priests; his theory on the distinction of the laity and clergy is ...
The CSEL publishes Latin writings of Christian authors from the time of the late 2nd century until the beginning of the 8th century (Bede the Venerable, †735).Each text is edited on the basis of all (or the most important of all) the extant manuscripts according to modern editorial techniques, in order to produce a text as close as possible to the original.
Absurdity is cited as a basis for some theological reasoning about the formation of belief and faith, such as in fideism, an epistemological theory that reason and faith may be hostile to each other. The statement " Credo quia absurdum " ("I believe because it is absurd") is attributed to Tertullian from De Carne Christi , as translated by ...
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For example, al-Masʿūdī (d. 956) states that the Marcionites taught "two principles, good and evil, and justice is a third (principle) between the two," [35] which, according to de Blois, are clear references to the Marcionite belief in "the good god, evil matter, and the just god."