"These are the only three existing ante-Nicene treatises on the Lord's Prayer, and they became the starting point for many other commentaries. Of the three, however, only the discourse of Cyprian is an address to catechumens. Tertullian's treatise contains additional material on…
In 2008, Lewis Ayres and Michel Barnes published several articles in the journal Augustinian Studies proposing a theory of early Christian pneumatology in three stages. They argue that each successive stage marked a downturn in the church’s pneumatology, progressing from a high …
Tertullian wrote extensively on the subject of baptism. Tertullian’s mention of baptism is surveyed throughout his corpus. Special attention is paid to his De Baptismo and other pre-Montantist works. Tertullian’s De Baptismo 18 has received significant use by Presbyterians, Bapt…
The virtue of patience is generally considered a passive virtue. But, like all classical ideas of virtue, patience manifests itself in two characteristics: active and passive. Through an inquiry into the notions of patience in philosophical tradition, biblical tradition, and pat…
