Roman and Patristic Christian theologian of the pre-Nissenic period born in Carthage, in Latin Africa, at the time one of the main cultural centers of the Empire Roman, characterized as polemicist and moralist, of great production whose writings were fundamental to fix the lexicon and doctrine of Christianity western.
Dedicated to the study of law, he received a careful education and, at the age of twenty, went to Rome, where he expanded his training and converted to Christianity. Dedicating himself to the study of the Scriptures, Christian and profane literature, and Gnostic treatises, he returned to Carthage (196) and began a productive literary activity aimed at consolidating the church in North Africa, becoming the first successful Christian writer writing in Latin. His texts and plays were directed against pagans, idolaters, Jews and heretics.
His 31 preserved treatises are fundamental texts for understanding the first centuries of Christianity, including Apologeticum (Apologetic), De anima (On the soul), De exhortatione castitatis (On the exhortation to chastity) and De spectaculis (On the spectacles), Adversus Marcionem (Against Marcion), Adversus Valentinians (Against Valentinians), Adversus Hermogenem (Against Hermogenes) and De praescriptione haereticorum (On the readmission of heretics).
At the end of his life he abandoned Christianity (210) and joined an ascetic Montanist sect and later he created his own religious movement, Tertullianism, which remained independent until the fifth century, and died in Cartago.
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