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.); wrote numerous works, apologetical, polemical, doctrinal, and practical, the last of an ascetic tendency (150‒230).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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