Against Hermogenes
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3rd c. · Polemics & Heresiology · English translation, 1890
Source edition: The Ante-Nicene Fathers (ed. Roberts & Donaldson, 1885)
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Contents
- 1. The Opinions of Hermogenes, by the Prescriptive Rule of Antiquity Shown to…
- 2. Hermogenes, After a Perverse Induction from Mere Heretical Assumptions…
- 3. An Argument of Hermogenes. The Answer: While God is a Title Eternally…
- 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…
- 6. The Shifts to Which Hermogenes is Reduced, Who Deifies Matter, and Yet is…
- 7. Hermogenes Held to His Theory in Order that Its Absurdity May Be Exposed on…
- 8. On His Own Principles, Hermogenes Makes Matter, on the Whole, Superior to God
- 9. Sundry Inevitable But Intolerable Conclusions from the Principles of…
- 10. To What Straits Hermogenes Absurdly Reduces the Divine Being. He Does…
- 11. Hermogenes Makes Great Efforts to Remove Evil from God to Matter. How He…
- 12. The Mode of Controversy Changed. The Premisses of Hermogenes Accepted, in…
- 13. Another Ground of Hermogenes that Matter Has Some Good in It. Its Absurdity
- 14. Tertullian Pushes His Opponent into a Dilemma
- 15. The Truth, that God Made All Things from Nothing, Rescued from the…
- 16. A Series of Dilemmas. They Show that Hermogenes Cannot Escape from the…
- 17. The Truth of God’s Work in Creation. You Cannot Depart in the Least from…
- 18. An Eulogy on the Wisdom and Word of God, by Which God Made All Things of…
- 19. An Appeal to the History of Creation. True Meaning of the Term Beginning…
- 20. Meaning of the Phrase—In the Beginning. Tertullian Connects It with the…
- 21. A Retort of Heresy Answered. That Scripture Should in So Many Words Tell Us…
- 22. This Conclusion Confirmed by the Usage of Holy Scripture in Its History of…
- 23. Hermogenes Pursued to Another Passage of Scripture. The Absurdity of His…
- 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…
- 26. The Method Observed in the History of the Creation, in Reply to the…
- 27. Some Hair-Splitting Use of Words in Which His Opponent Had Indulged
- 28. A Curious Inconsistency in Hermogenes Exposed. Certain Expressions in The…
- 29. The Gradual Development of Cosmical Order Out of Chaos in the Creation…
- 30. Another Passage in the Sacred History of the Creation, Released from the…
- 31. A Further Vindication of the Scripture Narrative of the Creation, Against a…
- 32. The Account of the Creation in Genesis a General One, Corroborated…
- 33. Statement of the True Doctrine Concerning Matter. Its Relation to God’s…
- 34. A Presumption that All Things Were Created by God Out of Nothing Afforded…
- 35. Contradictory Propositions Advanced by Hermogenes Respecting Matter and Its…
- 36. Other Absurd Theories Respecting Matter and Its Incidents Exposed in an…
- 37. Ironical Dilemmas Respecting Matter, and Sundry Moral Qualities Fancifully…
- 38. Other Speculations of Hermogenes, About Matter and Some of Its Adjuncts…
- 39. These Latter Speculations Shown to Be Contradictory to the First Principles…
- 40. Shapeless Matter an Incongruous Origin for God’s Beautiful Cosmos…
- 41. Sundry Quotations from Hermogenes. Now Uncertain and Vague are His…
- 42. Further Exposure of Inconsistencies in the Opinions of Hermogenes…
- 43. Other Discrepancies Exposed and Refuted Respecting the Evil in Matter Being…
- 44. Curious Views Respecting God’s Method of Working with Matter Exposed…
- 45. Conclusion. Contrast Between the Statements of Hermogenes and the Testimony…