I was really hoping for Irenaeus of Lyons....

[fpb]

You’re Tertullian! You possess many gifts, but patience isn’t one of them. You’re tough on yourself — and on others. You’re independent, too, and you don’t like to be told what to do. You wish the Church would be a little tighter in discipline. As for the pagans, you’ve pretty much written them off. Sometimes you think the Church would be a better place if you were in charge. Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers!

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[guarani]

If the reasons why you ended up as Tertulian instead of Iraeneus are the same ones that granted me the very same result, it would be totally understandable.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I just hope we don't both end up as Montanists. That would really suck.

[guarani]

Montanists? Anathema sint!

[cheyinka]

Thirding the Tertullian result.

Didn't Montanus reject some/most/parts of the Old Testament, or am I confusing him with a different heretic? I don't see any mention of that in the wikipedia article, so I think I'm wrong.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I'm St. Melito. The description fits, but I don't know him...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito_of_Sardis
http://www.kerux.com/documents/KeruxV4N1A1.asp
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/journals/jsjournal/hanneken.html
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/melito.html (note: this site is not Christian)
http://www.cogwriter.com/melito.htm (This is mostly nonsense, especially the denial that Melito regarded the Spirit as God - absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, not to mention that the Greek word for Spirit, pneuma, is inevitably connected to the identity of whoever has said spirit, in much the same sense as "life" with us, so that you would never speak of "the life of God" as separate from God. But it is worth it for the quotations, and because one might as well know what the enemy is saying.)

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Me, too.