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Tertulliano frasi celebri
“La verità è una, l'errore si moltiplica.”
Origine: Citato in Giuliana Rotondi, Come nasce un'eresia, Focus Storia, n. 54, aprile 2011, p. 35.
Credo quia absurdum.
[Citazione errata] Frase attribuita erroneamente a Tertulliano, non appare in nessuno dei testi originali conosciuti, ma è stata intesa come riassuntiva del pensiero dell'autore. La frase corretta è «È credibile perché è sciocco» (Credibile est, quia ineptum est, da De carne Christi). La citazione viene erroneamente attribuita anche ad Agostino d'Ippona.
Attribuite
Origine: Robert D. Sider, Credo quia absurdum? http://www.tertullian.org/articles/sider_credo.htm, Classical world n. 73 dell'aprile-maggio 1980, pp. 417-9.
Origine: Citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 487.
“La verità non arrossisce di nulla.”
Nihil veritas erubescit
Origine: Da Adversus Valentinianos III, 2.
Tertulliano Frasi e Citazioni
“La verità persuade per mezzo dell'insegnamento, ma non insegna persuadendo.”
Origine: Da Adversus Valentinianos, I, 4.
Origine: Da Apologia del Cristianesimo, traduzione di L. Rusca, Milano, BUR, 1984.
Tertulliano: Frasi in inglese
“O witness of the soul naturally Christian.”
Originale: (la) O testimonium animae naturaliter Christianae
Origine: Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 17
“The Jews formed the breeding ground of all anti-Christian actions.”
Origine: See In His Name https://books.google.com.br/books?id=HCucAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA312 by E. Christopher Reyes, Volume IV, p. 312
Origine: The Chaplet https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm, Chapter V
Origine: The Chaplet https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm, Chapter V
“O witness of the soul naturally Christian.”
Originale: O testimonium animae naturaliter Christianae
Origine: The Apology https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0301.htm, Chapter 17
The Prescriptions Against the Heretics as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, in Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome (1956), p. 63
The Prescription Against Heretics https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0311.htm
Adv. Prax. 18 http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM
Against Praxeas https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0317.htm
Originale: (la) Igitur unus deus pater, et absque eo alius non est: quod ipse inferens non filium negat sed alium deum: ceterum alius a patre filius non est.
Variant translation: We conclude that God is known first through Nature, and then again, more particularly, by doctrine; by Nature in His works, and by doctrine in His revealed word.
Book I, Chapter XVIII.—Notwithstanding Their Conceits, the God of the Marcionites Fails in the Vouchers Both of Created Evidence and of Adequate Revelation.
This was quoted by Galileo in his defense of natural sciences.
Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 https://people.bu.edu/dklepper/RN242/duchess.html
Against Marcion https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0312.htm
Originale: (la) Digna enim deo probabunt deum. Nos definimus deum primo natura cognoscendum, deinde doctrina recognoscendum, natura ex operibus, doctrina ex praedicationibus.
“It is certain because it is impossible.”
De Carne Christi 5.4
Often paraphrased or misquoted as "Credo quia absurdum."
Also paraphrased as "It is so extraordinary that it must be true."
The above two lines from De Carne Christi have often become conflated into the statement: "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe it because it is impossible), which can be perceived as a distortion of the actual arguments that Tertullian was making.
On the Flesh of Christ https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0315.htm
Originale: (la) Certum est, quia impossibile.
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
The Soul's Testimony https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0309.htm
Originale: (la) Omnium gentium unus homo, uarium nomen est, una anima, uaria uox, unus spiritus, uarius sonus, propria cuique genti loquella, sed loquellae materia communis.
