Quinto Septimio Florente Tertuliano [a] fue un padre de la Iglesia y un prolífico escritor durante la segunda parte del siglo II y primera parte del siglo III. Debido a su trayectoria controvertida por haberse unido al movimiento montanista es, junto con Orígenes, uno de los dos padres de la Iglesia que no fueron canonizados. Nació, vivió y murió en Cartago, en el actual Túnez, y ejerció una gran influencia en la Cristiandad occidental de la época. Wikipedia
“Ved, ellos exclaman, como se aman los unos a los otros.”
Vide, inquiunt, ut invicem se diligent.
Apologeticus pro Christianis, XXIII.
“Es cierto porque es absurdo”
Prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est. / Certum est, quia impossibile.
De Carne Christi V, 4.
Nota: Hablando sobre la resurrección de Cristo.
Nota: Esta frase derivaría luego en «Creo porque es absurdo» («Credo quia absurdum»).
“Los cristianos no nacen, se hacen.”
Fiunt non nascuntur Christiani
Fuente: Apologeticus pro Christianis, XVIII.
“O witness of the soul naturally Christian.”
Original: (la) O testimonium animae naturaliter Christianae
Fuente: Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 17
“The Jews formed the breeding ground of all anti-Christian actions.”
Fuente: See In His Name https://books.google.com.br/books?id=HCucAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA312 by E. Christopher Reyes, Volume IV, p. 312
Fuente: The Chaplet https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm, Chapter V
Fuente: The Chaplet https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm, Chapter V
“O witness of the soul naturally Christian.”
Original: O testimonium animae naturaliter Christianae
Fuente: The Apology https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0301.htm, Chapter 17
The Prescriptions Against the Heretics as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, in Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome (1956), p. 63
The Prescription Against Heretics https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0311.htm
Adv. Prax. 18 http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM
Against Praxeas https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0317.htm
Original: (la) Igitur unus deus pater, et absque eo alius non est: quod ipse inferens non filium negat sed alium deum: ceterum alius a patre filius non est.
Variant translation: We conclude that God is known first through Nature, and then again, more particularly, by doctrine; by Nature in His works, and by doctrine in His revealed word.
Book I, Chapter XVIII.—Notwithstanding Their Conceits, the God of the Marcionites Fails in the Vouchers Both of Created Evidence and of Adequate Revelation.
This was quoted by Galileo in his defense of natural sciences.
Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 https://people.bu.edu/dklepper/RN242/duchess.html
Against Marcion https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0312.htm
Original: (la) Digna enim deo probabunt deum. Nos definimus deum primo natura cognoscendum, deinde doctrina recognoscendum, natura ex operibus, doctrina ex praedicationibus.
“It is certain because it is impossible.”
De Carne Christi 5.4
Often paraphrased or misquoted as "Credo quia absurdum."
Also paraphrased as "It is so extraordinary that it must be true."
The above two lines from De Carne Christi have often become conflated into the statement: "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe it because it is impossible), which can be perceived as a distortion of the actual arguments that Tertullian was making.
On the Flesh of Christ https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0315.htm
Original: (la) Certum est, quia impossibile.
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
The Soul's Testimony https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0309.htm
Original: (la) Omnium gentium unus homo, uarium nomen est, una anima, uaria uox, unus spiritus, uarius sonus, propria cuique genti loquella, sed loquellae materia communis.
