Early Church Father, Tertullian (c. AD 160–225), whose writings were instrumental in the formation of Christian doctrine, specifically his treatment of the doctrine of Trinity, [1] the hypostatic union, original sin, and Christ’s virgin birth and bodily resurrection, also wrote a treatise defending the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo , the teaching that God created the cosmos out of nothing. Up until the second century, “the biblical presentation of the Almighty God who created the world and continued to work in history as creator, possessed for early Christianity an overwhelming self-evidence and was not perceived as a metaphysical problem.” [2] But as the preaching of Christ began to spread through the Hellenistic (and polytheistic) world, the Greek metaphysical and philosophical systems posed a challenge for Christian missionary efforts. For the early church, and for orthodox Christianity, the doctrine of “ creatio ex nihilo is a consequence of monotheism.” [3] The Apologists of t