De Carne Christi

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Christian theological treatise Latin theological text patristic work

De Carne Christi is an early Christian theological treatise by Tertullian that defends the true, fleshly incarnation of Christ against docetic and Gnostic views.

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Label	Occurrences
De Carne Christi canonical	1
On the Flesh of Christ	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian theological treatise ⓘ Latin theological text ⓘ patristic work ⓘ
affirms	reality of Christ’s death ⓘ reality of Christ’s suffering ⓘ resurrection of Christ in the flesh ⓘ virgin birth of Christ ⓘ
associatedWith	Roman North Africa ⓘ surface form: North African Christianity
audience	Christian readers concerned with heresy ⓘ
author	Tertullian ⓘ
citedBy	medieval theologians ⓘ modern scholars of early Christianity ⓘ
dateApproximation	early 3rd century ⓘ
doctrinalContext	debates on the nature of Christ’s body ⓘ
famousArgument	“credibile est, quia ineptum est” tradition (often paraphrased as “credo quia absurdum”) ⓘ
genre	polemical treatise ⓘ
influenced	Western doctrinal debates on the incarnation ⓘ later Latin Christology ⓘ
keyTheme	goodness of created flesh ⓘ paradox of the incarnation ⓘ salvation involving the body ⓘ
language	Latin ⓘ
mainTopic	Christology ⓘ incarnation of Christ ⓘ true humanity of Christ ⓘ
opposes	Docetism ⓘ Marcionite theology ⓘ Valentinianism ⓘ surface form: Valentinian Gnosticism
partOf	Tertullian’s anti-heretical writings ⓘ
placeOfComposition	Carthage ⓘ
preservedIn	manuscript tradition of Latin Fathers ⓘ
purpose	to defend orthodox belief in the incarnation ⓘ to refute docetic and Gnostic denials of Christ’s real flesh ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor	Adversus Marcionem ⓘ De Resurrectione Carnis ⓘ
religiousContext	Christianity ⓘ
theologicalPosition	affirmation of the real, fleshly body of Christ ⓘ affirmation of the unity of Christ’s human and divine natures ⓘ opposition to Docetism ⓘ opposition to Gnostic Christology ⓘ
titleTranslation	De Carne Christi self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: On the Flesh of Christ
tradition	Latin patristics ⓘ early Christian literature ⓘ
usedIn	historical theology studies ⓘ patristic Christology courses ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tertullian → notableWork → De Carne Christi ⓘ

De Carne Christi → titleTranslation → De Carne Christi self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: On the Flesh of Christ