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Tertullian lived during the second and third century, and he helped the church refine its theology and defended it against pagan attack. He also helped articulate many of its central doctrines—in his writings we find the first usage of the word “Trinity” and the first mention of the Trinitarian formula—“three persons, one substance.” B. B. Warfield offers a biographical sketch of Tertullian’s...

nature. He gathered up into himself all that the old world had to offer, and re-coining it sent it forth again bearing the stamp of his profound character. It belonged to the peculiarity of his genius that he embraced all that he took up into himself “with all the fibres of his soul”; not, as has been said, “with his heart alone, for the heart does not think, nor with the mind only; he never grasps truth in the abstract, and as if it were dead,”5 but with his whole being, giving himself to it and
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