Tertullian
Roman Christian theologian and writer (c. 155 – c. 220)
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Early Christian writer who basically invented Latin theological writing. Tertullian spent his Carthage years arguing against heresy with the rhetorical equivalent of a flamethrower.
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Tertullian was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against what he viewed as heresy, including Gnosticism.
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