Tertullianist

English

Etymology

From Tertullian +‎ -ist.

Noun

Tertullianist (plural Tertullianists)

1. (historical, religion, Christianity) An adherent of the teachings of early Christian theologian Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c.155-c.240 CE).
   • 2007, William Tabbernee, Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, Koninklijke Brill (Brill), page 268,

     Even Augustine's contact with the Tertullianists appears to have been slight. Could Augustine's assessment of the Tertullianists, therefore, have been inaccurate?

   • 2009, Nicholas Wolterstorff, edited by Terence Cuneo, Inquiring about God: Selected Essays, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, page 303:

     Christian learning must accordingly be Tertullianist learning. Tertullianist as well as Clementine — Clementine as well as Tertullianist.

   • 2017, Julian Barr, Tertullian and the Unborn Child: Christian and Pagan Attitudes in Historical Perspective‎^[1], Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 8:

     Augustine's indication that Tertullian himself founded the Tertullianists as a splinter group from the Carthaginian Montanists is unlikely. It is possible that the term ‘Tertullianist’ was a synonym for African Montanists, or that the Tertullianists were a sect within Carthaginian Montanism, or even that the Tertullianists did not identify themselves as Montanists at all.

Usage notes

Little is reliably known of Tertullian himself, and this uncertainty also extends to the Tertullianists.

Further reading

• Pseudo-Tertullian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia