DID TERTULLIANS THEOLOGY CHANGE WHEN HE BECAME A MONTANTIST?
Before
Tertullian broke with mainstream Christianity and joined the Cult of
Montanus he wrote an Apology in behalf of Christians.
Did he preach a:
Did he preach a:
(
TWO ) --- IN --- ONE GOD CONCEPT?
Or
a:
(
THREE ) --- IN --- ONE GOD CONCEPT?
Before he converted to Montantism?
Before he converted to Montantism?
LATIN
TEXT: “...ita [13]
et quod de deo profectum est, deus et dei filius et unus ambo...” -
(Chapter 21:7-15; “Tertulliani Liber Apologeticus,” Text edited
by F. Oehler, as revised by T. R. Glover, 1851-53.)
LATIN
TEXT: “...Ita [13]
et quod de deo profectum est, deus et dei filius et unus ambo...” -
(Chapter XXI.1-31, Tertulliani Apologeticum. Text edited by Carl
Becker 1961.)
TERTULLIAN
PRE-MONTANTIST (before circa. 185 C.E. ): “...so, too, that
which has come forth out of God is at once God and the Son of God,
AND THE TWO ARE ONE...” - (Chapter
XXI. THE APOLOGY. Translated by the Rev. S.
Thelwall, Late Scholar of Christ's College, Cantab.)
http://www.tertullian.org/anf/anf03/anf03-05.htm#P344_139064
TERTULLIAN
PRE-MONTANTIST PERIOD (before circa. 185 C.E.):
“...Thus it is that the Logos which came forth from God is both God
and the Son of God, AND THOSE TWO ARE ONE...”
-
(Pages 61-69, CHAPTER XXI. CONCERNING THE BIRTH AND CRUCIFIXION OF
JESUS CHRIST. The Apology of Tertullian, tr. and annotated by W.
Reeve; and the Meditations of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus,
tr. by
J. Collier.
pp. xvi. 270. [1889.] Series: Ancient and modern library of
theological literature 31.)
JAROSLAV
JAN PELIKAN (circa. 1923–2006 C.E.): “...In any case, the
crucial place for an examination of the significance of Montanism for
the history of the doctrine of the trinity is Tertullian. Is it
correct to say that “WHAT INDIVIDUAL ADHERENTS OF THE NEW PROPHECY
DID FOR THE THEOLOGICAL ARTICULATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
DID ( NOT ) COME FROM THEIR MONTANISM?”
- OR – IS IT ( MORE – ACCURATE ) TO SUGGEST THAT MONTANISM (
TAUGHT ) TERTULLIAN TO THINK OF THE PARACLETE IN ( MORE – PERSONAL
) TERMS THAN HE HAD IN HIS EARLY WORKS, SO THAT HE CAME
TO A ( MORE - METAPHYSICAL ) DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY? With certain
reservations, the second alternative seems preferable, partly for
sheer chronological reasons.
THE EARLY WRITINGS OF TERTULLIAN TENDED TO STRESS THE FATHER AND THE
SON ( AT – THE - EXPENSE – OF ) THE HOLY SPIRIT;
those which definitely dated from the Montanist period, on the other
hand, did contain a ( more - metaphysical ) doctrine of the
“Trinity”-- a word which Tertullian seems to have been the first
theologian to employ in Latin. THE
EMPHASIS ( IN MONTANISM ) ON THE SPIRIT ( IS
– THE – EXPLANATION
) OF THIS ( SHIFT ) THAT SUGGESTS ITSELF MOST INSISTENTLY...”
- (Page 105, “The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition: (100 –
600),” By Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Published August 15th 1975 by
University of Chicago Press.)
[PERSONAL
NOTE]: He goes on in the following paragraphs to play down, (at
least in my opinion), and without any real substantial, or even
convincing arguments, the demonic role in the new prophecy of
Montanus.
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