biography
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Tertullian
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in full Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus
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pronunciation:
[tertulian]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.160–220)
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| biography:
| Christian theologian, born in Carthage. He lived for some time at Rome, was converted (c.196), and then returned to Carthage. His opposition to worldliness in the Church culminated in his becoming a leader of the Montanist sect (c.207). The first to produce major Christian works in Latin, he thus exercised a profound influence on the development of ecclesiastical language. He wrote books against heathens, Jews, and heretics, as well as several practical and ascetic treatises. |
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