Tertullian Quotes
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
Tertullian. On the Prescription of Heretics. The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1885, p. 246.
Despite his recognition of this point, he too became an advocate of murdering religious opponents.
He was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for figuring out that the earth revolved around the sun which was contrary to church teaching at the time.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become quite atheistic.
Tertullian (/tərˈtʌliən/; Latin: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c. 155 – c. AD 220) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. Of Berber origin, he was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."
