The Treatise Against HermogenesHermogenes was still living when Carthage's native son took up his pen to oppose him, but that did not make Tertullian's polemic more considerate, or his satire less passionate and biting. Hermogenes taught a form of materialism. Tertullian brilliantly convicts him of contradiction. + |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
2 ANALYSIS | 13 |
3 MANUSCRIPTS EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS | 17 |
FOREWORD WHO IS HERMOGENES? | 26 |
THE BASIC ARGUMENTS OF HERMOGENES | 27 |
REFUTATION OF HERMOGENES CONCEPTION OF MATTER | 31 |
b Matter and Evil | 39 |
POSITIVE PROOF FROM SCRIPTURE FOR A CREATION OUT OF NOTHING | 48 |
c Genesis 12b | 66 |
FURTHER POSITIVE PROOF FOR A CREATION OUT OF NOTHING | 71 |
HERMOGENES NOTION OF THE CONDITION OF MATTER IS CONTRADICTORY AND ABSURD | 73 |
HERMOGENES FURTHER CONTRADICTS HIMSELF REGARDING MOTION IN MATTER | 79 |
HERMOGENES THEORY ON THE ACT OF CREATION REFUTED | 82 |
EPILOGUE | 85 |
INTRODUCTION | 89 |
TEXT | 101 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Treatise Against Hermogenes Issue 24 of (Ancient Christian writers. The works of the Fathers in translation) Issue 24 of Ancient Christian writers |
| Authors | Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, Tertullian, Walter J. Burghardt, J. Quasten |
| Editors | Walter J. Burghardt, Jan Hendrik Waszink, J. Quasten |
| Translated by | Jan Hendrik Waszink |
| Contributor | Jan Hendrik Waszink |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Paulist Press, 1956 |
| ISBN | 0809101483, 9780809101481 |
| Length | 178 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Religious Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Religion / Christianity / Orthodox |
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