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Austere apologetics.

Q. Septimus Florens Tertullianus (ca. AD 150-222) was born a soldier's son at Carthage, educated in Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and medicine, and later studied law to became a pleader, remaining a clever and often tortuous arguer. At Rome he became a learned and militant Christian. After visiting churches in Greece (and Asia Minor?) he returned to Carthage and in his writings there founded a Christian Latin language and literature, toiling to fuse enthusiasm with reason; to unite the demands of the Bible with the practice of the Church; and to continue to vindicate the Church's possession of the true doctrine in the face of unbelievers, Jews, Gnostics, and others. In some of his many works he defended Christianity, in others he attacked heretical people and beliefs; in others he dealt with morals. In this volume are his Apologeticus and De Spectaculis.

Of Minucius, an early Christian writer of unknown date, we have only Octavius, a vigorous and readable debate between an unbeliever and a Christian friend of Minucius, the lawyer Octavius Ianuarius. Minucius himself acts as presiding judge. Octavius wins the argument. The whole work presents a picture of social and religious conditions in Rome, apparently about the end of the second century.



About the Author
Terrot Reaveley Glover (1869-1943) was Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at St John's College, University of Cambridge. Gerald Henry Rendall (1851-1945) was Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool and Headmaster of Charterhouse School.


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ISBN 9780674992764
Author Tertullian
Format Hardback
Page Count 480
Imprint Harvard University Press
Publisher Harvard University Press
Weight(grams) 345g

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