TERTULLIAN, QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS

TERTULLIAN, QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS
   one of the Latin Fathers, born at Carthage, the son of a Roman centurion; was well educated; bred a rhetorician; was converted to Christianity, became presbyter of Carthage, and embraced MONTANIST VIEWS (q.v. MONTANISM); wrote numerous works, apologetical, polemical, doctrinal, and practical, the last of an ascetic tendency (150-230).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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