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Against Hermogenes

Tertullian, ANF 3

1. The Opinions of Hermogenes, by the Prescriptive Rule of Antiquity Shown to Be Heretical.…
2. Hermogenes, After a Perverse Induction from Mere Heretical Assumptions, Concludes that…
3. An Argument of Hermogenes. The Answer: While God is a Title Eternally Applicable to the…
4. Hermogenes Gives Divine Attributes to Matter, and So Makes Two Gods
5. Hermogenes Coquets with His Own Argument, as If Rather Afraid of It. After Investing…
6. The Shifts to Which Hermogenes is Reduced, Who Deifies Matter, and Yet is Unwilling to…
7. Hermogenes Held to His Theory in Order that Its Absurdity May Be Exposed on His Own…
8. On His Own Principles, Hermogenes Makes Matter, on the Whole, Superior to God
9. Sundry Inevitable But Intolerable Conclusions from the Principles of Hermogenes
10. To What Straits Hermogenes Absurdly Reduces the Divine Being. He Does Nothing Short of…
11. Hermogenes Makes Great Efforts to Remove Evil from God to Matter. How He Fails to Do This…
12. The Mode of Controversy Changed. The Premisses of Hermogenes Accepted, in Order to Show…
13. Another Ground of Hermogenes that Matter Has Some Good in It. Its Absurdity
14. 14. Tertullian Pushes His Opponent into a Dilemma
15. The Truth, that God Made All Things from Nothing, Rescued from the Opponent’s Flounderings
16. A Series of Dilemmas. They Show that Hermogenes Cannot Escape from the Orthodox Conclusion
17. The Truth of God’s Work in Creation. You Cannot Depart in the Least from It, Without…
18. An Eulogy on the Wisdom and Word of God, by Which God Made All Things of Nothing
19. An Appeal to the History of Creation. True Meaning of the Term Beginning, Which the…
20. Meaning of the Phrase-In the Beginning. Tertullian Connects It with the Wisdom of God,…
21. A Retort of Heresy Answered. That Scripture Should in So Many Words Tell Us that the…
22. This Conclusion Confirmed by the Usage of Holy Scripture in Its History of the Creation.…
23. Hermogenes Pursued to Another Passage of Scripture. The Absurdity of His Interpretation…
24. 24. Earth Does Not Mean Matter as Hermogenes Would Have It
25. The Assumption that There are Two Earths Mentioned in the History of the Creation, Refuted
26. The Method Observed in the History of the Creation, in Reply to the Perverse…
27. Some Hair-Splitting Use of Words in Which His Opponent Had Indulged
28. The Gradual Development of Cosmical Order Out of Chaos in the Creation, Beautifully Stated
29. Another Passage in the Sacred History of the Creation, Released from the Mishandling of…
30. A Further Vindication of the Scripture Narrative of the Creation, Against a Futile View…
31. The Account of the Creation in Genesis a General One. Corroborated, However, by Many…
32. Statement of the True Doctrine Concerning Matter. Its Relation to God’s Creation of the…
33. A Presumption that All Things Were Created by God Out of Nothing Afforded by the Ultimate…
34. Contradictory Propositions Advanced by Hermogenes Respecting Matter and Its Qualities
35. Other Absurd Theories Respecting Matter and Its Incidents Exposed in an Ironical Strain,…
36. Ironical Dilemmas Respecting Matter, and Sundry Moral Qualities Fancifully Attributed to…
37. Other Speculations of Hermogenes, About Matter and Some of Its Adjuncts, Shown to Be…
38. These Latter Speculations Shown to Be Contradictory to the First Principles Respecting…
39. Shapeless Matter an Incongruous Origin for God’s Beautiful Cosmos. Hermogenes Does Not…
40. Sundry Quotations from Hermogenes. Now Uncertain and Vague are His Speculations…
41. Further Exposure of Inconsistencies in the Opinions of Hermogenes Respecting the Divine…
42. Other Discrepancies Exposed and Refuted Respecting the Evil in Matter Being Changed to…
43. Curious Views Respecting God’s Method of Working with Matter Exposed. Discrepancies in…
44. Conclusion. Contrast Between the Statements of Hermogenes and the Testimony of Holy…