Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study (Hardcover)

Professor Department of Classics Timothy David Barnes; Timothy David Barnes
Oxford University Press, USA
9780198143628
0-19-814362-1

Tertullian lived and wrote in Roman Carthage during the reigns of Septimus Severus (193-211) and his son Caracalla (211-217). His voluminous tracts and pamphlets reveal the atmosphere of early Christianity.

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in an era of persecution. The author sets Tertullian's writings within a chronological and historical framework, then uses them to interpret Tertullian's intellectial development, his reaction to the society in which he lived, and his place in Latin literature.