Tertuliani

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (160 hivi – 225 hivi),^[1] alikuwa padri na mwandishi maarufu wa Ukristo wa mwanzoni kutoka Karthago, mji wa mkoa wa Afrika katika Dola la Roma, leo nchini Tunisia.^[2]

Ndiye Mkristo wa kwanza aliyeandika sana kwa Kilatini, akiathiri fasihi yote iliyofuata hasa kwa misamiati yake mipya, hasa kuhusu fumbo la Utatu Mtakatifu^[3] akaitwa "mwanzilishi wa teolojia ya Magharibi."^[4]

Katika maandishi yake anajitokeza kama mtetezi wa imani pamoja na kupinga uzushi, ingawa ukali wa itikadi yake hatimaye ulimfanya ajitenge na Kanisa Katoliki^[5].

Habari chache tulizonazo kuhusu maisha yake yanapatikana hasa katika maandishi yake.

Yanapatikana katika magombo 1–2 ya Patrologia Latina, na matoleo ya kisasa zaidi katika Corpus Christianorum Latinorum.

Utetezi wa imani

• Apologeticus pro Christianis.
• Dissertatio Mosheim in Apol.
• Libri duo ad Nationes.
• De Testimonio animae.
• Ad Martyres.
• De Spectaculis.
• De Idololatria.
• Accedit ad Scapulam liber.
• Dissertatio D. Le Nourry in Apologet. libr. II ad Nat. et libr. ad Scapulam.

Hoja dhidi ya wengine

• De Oratione.
• De Baptismo.
• De Poenitentia.
• De Patientia.
• Ad Uxorem libri duo.
• De Cultu Feminarum lib. II.

Mafundisho ya imani

• De Corona Militis.
• De Fuga in Persecutione.
• Adversus Gnosticos Scorpiace.
• Adversus Praxeam.
• Adversus Hermogenem.
• Adversus Marcionem libri V.
• Adversus Valentinianos.
• Adversus Judaeos.
• De Anima.
• De Carne Christi.
• De Resurrectione Carnis.

Maadili

• De velandis Virginibus.
• De Exhortatione Castitatis.
• De Monogamia.
• De Jejuniis.
• De Pudicitia.
• De Pallio.

Orodha hii ilipendekezwa na John Kaye, askofu wa Lincoln katika karne ya 19^[6]

Ya alipokuwa Mkatoliki (labda):

• 1. De Poenitentia (Of Repentance)
• 2. De Oratione (Of Prayer)
• 3. De Baptismo (Of Baptism)
• 4.,5. Ad Uxorem, lib. I & II, (To His Wife),
• 6. Ad Martyras (To the Martyrs),
• 7. De Patientia (Of Patience)
• 8. Adversus Judaeos (Reply to the Jews)
• 9. De Praescriptione Haereticorum (Prescription against Heretics),

Yasiyobainika:

• 10. Apologeticus pro Christianis (Apology for the Christians)
• 11.,12. ad Nationes, lib. I & II (To the Nations)
• 13. De Testimonio animae (On the Witness of the Soul)
• 14. De Pallio (Of the Ascetic Mantle)
• 15. Adversus Hermogenem (Against Hermogenes)

Ya baada ya kujitenga (labda):

• 16. Adversus Valentinianus (Against the Valentinians)
• 17. ad Scapulam (To Scapula, Proconsul of Africa),
• 18. De Spectaculis (Of the Games),
• 19. De Idololatria (Of Idolatry)
• 20., 21. De cultu Feminarum, lib. I & II (Of Women's Dress)

Ya baada ya kujitenga:

• 22. Adversus Marcionem, lib I (Against Marcion, Bk. I),
• 23. Adversus Marcionem, lib II
• 24. De Anima (Of the Soul),
• 25. Adversus Marcionem, lib III
• 26. Adversus Marcionem, lib IV
• 27. De Carne Christi (Of the Flesh of Christ),
• 28. De Resurrectione Carnis (Of the Resurrection of Flesh)
• 29. Adversus Marcionem, lib V
• 30. Adversus Praxean (Against Praxeas),
• 31. Scorpiace (Antidote to Scorpion's Bite)
• 32. De Corona Militis (Of the Soldier's Garland),
• 33. De velandis Virginibus (Of Veiling Virgins),
• 34. De Exhortatione Castitatis (Of Exhortation to Chastity),
• 35. De Fuga in Persecutione (Of Flight in Persecution)
• 36. De Monogamia (Of Monogamy)
• 37. De Jejuniis, adversus psychicos (Of Fasting, against the materialists),
• 38. De Puditicia (Of Modesty)

• 1. Adversus Omnes Haereses (Against all Heresies) – poss. Victorinus of Pettau
• 2 De execrandis gentium diis (On the Execrable Gods of the Heathens)
• 3 Carmen adversus Marcionem (Poem against Marcion)
• 4 Carmen de Iona Propheta (Poem about the Prophet Jonas) – poss. Cyprianus Gallus
• 5 Carmen de Sodoma (Poem about Sodom) – poss. Cyprianus Gallus
• 6 Carmen de Genesi (Poem about Genesis)
• 7 Carmen de Judicio Domini (Poem about the Judgment of the Lord)

• Mababu wa Kanisa

• Initial text of article from The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Philip Schaff, public domain
• This Holy Seed: Faith, Hope and Love in the Early Churches of North Africa Robin Daniel, (Chester, Tamarisk Publications, 2010: from www.opaltrust.org) ISBN 095385634.
• T.D.Barnes, Tertullian: A literary and historical study Oxford, 1971; reprinted with appendix of revisions 1985.
• Ekonomou, Andrew J. 2007. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern influences on Rome and the papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590–752. Lexington Books.

Primary sources:

• Tertullian's works in many languages, including Latin, and English, website intratext.com.
• English translations of all Tertullian's works can be found in Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, editors, 1867–1872, Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translation of the Writings of the Fathers, Down to AD 325, Edinburgh: T&T Clark: Vol. 7 (Tertullian's Against Marcion), Vol. 11(Tertullian's Treatises, Pt. 1), Vol. 15 (Tertullian's Treatises, Pt.2), Vol. 18 (Tertullian's Treatises, Pt. 3)

Secondary sources:

• EarlyChurch.org.uk Detailed bibliography and on-line articles.
• Jerome's On Famous Men Chapter 53 is devoted to Tertullian.
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Tertullian
• Tertullian in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• The Tertullian Project, a site which provides all of the works of this Father of Church in Latin, translations in many languages, manuscripts etc.
• J. Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln (1845, third edition) The Ecclesiastical History of the Second and Third Centuries, illustrated from the writings of Tertullian. London: Rivington.
• Shughuli au kuhusu Tertuliani katika maktaba ya WorldCat catalog

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