I Believe Because it is Absurd

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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus was his name, or to most of us, Tertullian: a remarkable man. Born in 160 CE to a Roman centurion, he grew up to be a Carthaginian lawyer, a Christian convert, a prolific apologist and the most influential of the Church Fathers. He invented the terms “Trinity” (trinitas) and “Old” and “New Testament” (vetus/novum testamentum), as well as the classic formula, “Three Persons, one Substance.” He was first to call Christianity the vera religio, the True … Read on…