Author: Tertullian
Alternate names: Tertullianus; Tertullian; Tertullien; Quintus Septimius F . Tertullianus; Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus; Quintus Tertullian; Florens Quintus Septmius Tertullian; Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian; Quintus Tertullianus Florens Septimius; Quinto Septimio Florente Tertuliano; Tertuliano; ca 160-ca. 230 Tertullian; Ca 160-Ca 230 Tertullian; Tertullian Ca 160-Ca 230; ca. 160-ca. 230 Tertullian; Tertullian of Tertullian of Carthage; Septimus Florens Tertullian; Tertullian of Carthage; Tertullian Carthage; Approximately 160-Approxi Tertullian; Ca 160-Ca 230 Apologet Tertullian; approximately 160-approximately 230 Tertullian; Quintus Tertullianus; Quintus Septimius F. Tertullianus; Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; Quintus Septimus Florentius Tertullianus
Title: ca. 160-ca. 230.
Born: ca. 160
Died: ca. 220
Dates: ca. 230
Bio: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian (ca. 160 – ca. 220 A.D.), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity".

Though conservative, he did originate and advance new theology to the early Church. He is perhaps most famous for being the oldest extant Latin writer to use the term Trinity (Latin trinitas), and giving the oldest extant formal exposition of a Trinitarian theology. Other Latin formulations that first appear in his work are "three Persons, one Substance" as the Latin "tres Personae, una Substantia" (itself from the Koine Greek "treis Hypostases, Homoousios"). Some of Tertullian's ideas were not acceptable to the orthodox Church; in later life he became a Montanist.
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