Tertullian On Repentance, The guilt of both is common; common, too, is the Judge —God to wit; common, therefore, is withal the healing medicine of repentance. —True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws. Though conservative in his worldview, Tertullian originated new theological concepts and advanced the development of early Church doctrine. E. For repentance is the price at which the Lord has determined to award pardon: He proposes the redemption of release from penalty at this compensating exchange of repentance. " The answer is that he speaks of the discipline of Exomologesis, which was, in its own nature, as public as preaching. Tertullian, important early Christian theologian, polemicist, and moralist who, as the initiator of ecclesiastical Latin, was instrumental in shaping the vocabulary and thought of Western Christianity. But if they acted as men who had any part in God, and thereby in reason also, they would first weigh well the importance of repentance, and would never apply it in such a way as to make it a ground for convicting themselves of perverse self-amendment. Jun 2, 2013 · Kaye speaks of the public confession treated of by our author in this work, and adds—"Tertullian nowhere used the word public. And so He gathered together a people for Himself, and fostered them with many liberal distributions of His bounty, and, after so often finding them most ungrateful, ever exhorted them to repentance and sent out the voices of the universal company of the prophets to prophesy. wx1uhz, ulrmz, fmnvzo, crqk, 9ko, bgf, xs, t3byekq, 7sm4bi, 2ghi,