TERTULLIAN
TERTULLIAN
Tertullian (c. AD 160–225) was one of the first theologians of the Western Church and ranks among the most prominent of the early Latin fathers. His literary output is wide ranging, and provides an invaluable insight into the Christian Church in the crucial period when the Roman Empire was in decline.
This book is the first accessible introduction in English to Tertullian’s works, providing translations of Aduersus Iudaeos (Against the Jews), Scorpiace (Antidote for the Scorpion’s Sting) and De Virginibus Velandis (On the Veiling of Virgins). These crucial works, together with Geoffrey D.Dunn’s comprehensive commentary, illuminate the early church’s reaction to paganism, Judaism, Scripture and its development of a distinctive Christian ethic.
Geoffrey D.Dunn is an Australian Research Council Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University. He is also a presbyter of the Catholic Diocese of Cairns.