Word: tertullian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things not seen." But Christian faith is a paradox which is the sum of paradoxes. Its passion mounts, like a surge of music, insubstantial and sustaining, between two great cries of the spirit-the paradoxic sadness of "Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief," and the paradoxic triumph of Tertullian's "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe because it is impossible...
Catholic scholars outlined last week another great project in religious translation: a 72-volume edition of the writings of the early Church Fathers-including a number of texts never available in English. The edition will include major works of such early molders of Christian doctrine as Tertullian, Origen, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine and Chrysostom, down to Gregory the Great of the 6th Century. The seven-year task will be guided by Dr. Ludwig Schopp, editor and publisher of Traditio, an annual volume of learned essays, who has enlisted the aid of most U.S. Catholic authorities on the language, history and theology...