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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".
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.
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
The motif of Miles Christi did not assume the literal meaning of participation in war until Church doctrines justifying Christian participation in battle were developed around the 5th century. [25] In the 2nd-century writings of Tertullian, paganus meant a "civilian" who was lacking self-discipline.
De Carne Christi; De spectaculis This page was last edited on 9 February 2019, at 00:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Erasmus preferred for the prince to be loved, and strongly suggested a well-rounded education in order to govern justly and benevolently and avoid becoming a source of oppression. In 1523, Queen Catherine of Aragon commissioned Juan Luis Vives to write an equivalent book for the female side, The Education of a Christian Woman, for her daughter ...
Apelles (Greek: Aπελλής) was a second-century Gnostic Christian thinker. He began his ministry as a disciple of Marcion of Sinope, likely in Rome.However, at some point, Apelles either left or was expelled from the Marcionite church.