Pseudo-Tertullian

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Pseudo-Tertullian is the scientific name and thus only a nominal auxiliary construction for the unknown ancient author of the Libellus adversus omnes haereses , an appendix to the work De praescriptione haereticorum by Tertullian . 32 heresies were listed in the appendix . There is consensus among research that this work was not by Tertullian himself.

A traditional assumption is that the work is a Latin translation of a Greek original, a lost work called Syntagma , created by Hippolytus of Rome around AD 220. A recent hypothesis, consistent with a theory by Richard Adelbert Lipsius , suggests that this work Syntagma was also the common source for Philastrius and the Panarion of Epiphanios of Salamis .

Otto Bardenhewer (1932) saw the author as one of the ranks of other early Christian writers who compiled catalogs of heretics or writings against various heresies. With his Libellus adversus omnes haereses , he was particularly close to Hippolytus.

The Catholic encyclopedia describes it as " Knüttelvers - Hexameter " (versus inculti) and mentions two explanations, on the one hand the poem was written by a comedian and on the other hand Adversus omnes haereses was written by Victorinus von Poetovio .

Pseudo-Tertullian debated controversially with Kerdon and his attitude towards the virgin birth . He wrote that Kerdon taught that Jesus Christ was not born of a virgin and that he did not appear in substantia carnis at all . Against Kerdon's pupil Markion , he made the claim that he, as the son of the bishop of Sinope in Pontus ( Paphlagonia ), was expelled from the local community by his father because of the seduction of a virgin. The name pseudo-Tertullian also refers to the author of a poem against Marcion.

Pseudo-Tertuillian stated that there were strong similarities between the ideas of the Gnostics Kerinth and Carpocrates .

literature

  • Allen Brent : Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century: Communities in Tension Before the Emergence of a Monarch-Bishop. Brill, Leiden 1995, ISBN 978-9-0041-0245-3 , pp. 120 f.
  • Wilhelm Bousset : Main Problems of Gnosis. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973, reprint of the 1st edition from 1907, ISBN 3-525-53551-1 , p. 109 f

Web links

  • Catholic Encyclopedia: Marcionites. 2017 by Kevin Knight. [1]

References and comments

  1. ↑ Reinhard Pummer : Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-1614-7831-4 , p. 32.
  2. ↑ Roel van den Broek , Cis van Heertum : From Poimandres to Jacob Böhme: Gnosis, Hermetism and the Christian Tradition. Brill Academic Pub, Leiden 2000, ISBN 978-9-0716-0810-0 , p. 262.
  3. ↑ Otto Bardenhewer : History of the early church literature. Volume 5, Freiburg / Br. 1932, reprinted Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK 2018, ISBN 978-1-1080-8185-6 , p. 369
  4. ↑ Udo Schnelle : Antidocetic Christology in the Gospel of John. An investigation into the position of the fourth gospel in the Johannine school. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-53823-5 , pp. 78-79
  5. ↑ Pseudo-Tertullian, Libellus adversus omnes haereses 6.2
  6. ^ Albertus Frederik Johannes Klijn , Gerrit Jan Reinink : Patristic Evidence for Jewish-Christian Sects. Brill Archive, Leiden 1973, ISBN 978-9-0040-3763-2 , pp. 74-76
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SURNAME Pseudo-Tertullian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient author of early Christianity
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century