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Tertullian

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Tertullian was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist... Wikipedia
Born: 160 AD, Carthage
Died: 240 AD (age 80 years), Carthage
Era: Patristic age
Main interests: Soteriology, traducianism
Notable ideas: Hypostasis, ousia, sacrament, consubstantiality, persona
Notable work: Apologeticus

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Tertullian , (born c. 155/160, Carthage—died after 220, Carthage), Early Christian theologian and moralist.