Tertullian

Tertullian was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against what he viewed as heresy, including Gnosticism.

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Who was born first?

• Tertullian and Sextus Julius Africanus were born the same year
• Tertullian was born 6 years after Bardaisan
• Tertullian was born 10 years after Nagarjuna
• Tertullian was born 10 years after Clement of Alexandria
• Tertullian was born 15 years before Ammonius Saccas

Timeline

1. Clement of Alexandriacirca AD 150 – circa AD 215
2. Nagarjunacirca AD 150 – circa AD 250
3. BardaisanJuly 11, AD 154 – AD 222
4. Sextus Julius Africanuscirca AD 160 – circa AD 240
5. Tertullian (this page)circa AD 160 – circa AD 240
6. Ammonius SaccasAD 175 – 3rd century

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