God in Trinity in Tertullian’s Interpretation of the Act of Creation (Gen: 1–2)
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Tertullian, creation, Holy Trinity, God, Son of God, Holy Spirit, the Book of Genesis, manAbstract
The article deals with the role that the Three Divine Persons of the Holy Trinity play in the act of creation - as presented in statements concerning the first chapters of the Book of Genesis by Tertullian of Carthage (+225). The article – in its three consecutive parts – discusses respectively the part of God (referred to by Tertulian as Deus/Dominus/ Pater), of the Son (Sermo/Filius) and of the Holy Spirit (Spiritus) in the act of creation. Tertullian never wrote any exegetical work exclusively dedicated to Genesis. On the other hand in his writings – which most often were directed against various heresies of the time (here first of all against the errors of Hermogenes, Prakseas and Marcion) – he incorporated numerous comments referring to that very book. In those comments one may discern the beginnings of the Trinitarian theology as well as of the theology of Creation.
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