Tertullian’s An Answer to the Jews: The Earliest Major Latin Refutation of Judaism – Christ The King

Tertullian’s Adversus Judaeos (c. A.D. 200) — the earliest major Latin refutation of Jews and Judaism. A traditional Catholic study of his proof that the Old Covenant ended in Christ and the Church is the true Israel. Full source text: christtheking.info

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Theme Song
0:33 – INTRODUCTION
1:26 – PART 1: WHO WAS TERTULLIAN?
2:52 – PART 2: THE OCCASION AND THE FOUR THESES
4:28 – PART 3: THE TWO PEOPLES: THE ELDER SERVES THE YOUNGER
6:25 – PART 4: THE LAW ANTERIOR TO MOSES
7:37 – PART 5: CIRCUMCISION AND THE SABBATH DISMANTLED
9:04 – PART 6: CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL SACRIFICE
10:18 – PART 7: THE NEW COVENANT WAS PROPHESIED
11:06 – PART 8: DANIEL’S SEVENTY WEEKS: THE CLOCK HAS RUN
13:38 – PART 9: PASSION TYPOLOGY, TWO ADVENTS, AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
15:56 – PART 10: MESSIANIC PROPHECIES FULFILLED
16:53 – CONCLUSION

📖 SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO:

Tertullian’s An Answer to the Jews — full text:
👉 christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/an-answer-to-the-jews-tertullian/
NOTE: Tertullian died as a Montanist heretic. This treatise predates that error and is doctrinally orthodox.
📚 Full Adversus Judaeos Library:
👉 christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/
All Scripture from the Douay-Rheims. Where Tertullian’s Old Latin rendering differs from the DR, this is noted.

⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This video presents historical theological sources for educational purposes. The teaching documented is theological/doctrinal opposition, not racial hatred. Individual Jews can convert and be saved. Violence against Jews is condemned.”*

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