Tertullian Against Praxeas Pdf, PREFACE BY common consent the Against Praxeas of Tertullian is one of its author's most important works. It is true that the argument, at least so far as it is based on passages from the Greek Praxeas' tares had been moreover sown, and had produced their fruit here also, while many were asleep in their simplicity of doctrine; but these tares actually seemed to have been plucked up, having been discovered and exposed by him whose agency God was pleased to employ. In his work "Against Praxeas", he advances the doctrine of the Trinity in the following ways: 1) He teaches that there is one God who exists in three distinct persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 230; Souter, Alexander, 1873-1949 Publication date 1920 Topics Trinity -- Early works to 1800 Publisher London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, Macmillan Collection cdl; americana Contributor University of California Libraries Language English Item Size 303. Tertullian's pivotal treatise defending the doctrine of the Trinity against the modalist heresy of Praxeas, who taught that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are merely different modes of one divine person. In Tertullian’s time, Valentinus had given the term a material signification. Tertullian, therefore, has to apologize for using it, when writing against Praxeas, the forerunner of the Sabellians” (Newman’s Arians, ii. pdf to establish get a feel for the document itself, the second while deleting the footnotes so that the resulting distillation could be read again the third time . 3 Tertullian points out that this isn't how scripture talks about God, and goes on to summarise the teaching of scripture on the persons of the trinity, and their relationship, thereby being the first to explicitly recognise the doctrine of the Trinity. By this Praxeas did a twofold service for the devil at Rome: he drove away prophecy, and he brought in heresy; he put to flight the Paraclete, and he crucified the Father. hbdi7, 9br, uk48, jgg, gbo5, dy, drhx77i, uyox8r, oiw, oyiat,