African Church Father and one of the first major Christian theologians to write in Latin. Known for the dictim credo quia absurdum est (literally, “I believe because it is absurd”), he has often been viewed as promoting an irrationalistic approach to religious truth. By way of assent to paradoxical statements, he sharply opposed things that can be known only by faith over against reason. He is also recognized as the first important theologian to think of the Trinity as “one substance in three persons.”
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