Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the text and list of abbreviations
- 1 Simplicity and perfection
- 2 The puzzle: Athens and Jerusalem
- 3 The paradox: credible because inept
- 4 Strife of opposites and faith as recognition
- 5 Antithesis in one God: ‘Against Marcion’
- 6 Trinity and christology
- 7 Prayer and the bible
- 8 Mankind's two natures and a sordid church
- 9 Argument and humour: Hermogenes and the Valentinians
- 10 Promise of laughter, judgement of hell: apocalyse and system
- 11 Ethics of conflict
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Subject index
- Citations from Tertullian
- Citations from the Bible
Citations from Tertullian
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the text and list of abbreviations
- 1 Simplicity and perfection
- 2 The puzzle: Athens and Jerusalem
- 3 The paradox: credible because inept
- 4 Strife of opposites and faith as recognition
- 5 Antithesis in one God: ‘Against Marcion’
- 6 Trinity and christology
- 7 Prayer and the bible
- 8 Mankind's two natures and a sordid church
- 9 Argument and humour: Hermogenes and the Valentinians
- 10 Promise of laughter, judgement of hell: apocalyse and system
- 11 Ethics of conflict
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Subject index
- Citations from Tertullian
- Citations from the Bible
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- Tertullian, First Theologian of the West , pp. 272 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997