The Brilliant Advocate Who Forged Christian Vocabulary-Then Died Outside the Church

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (c. 155-220 AD) gave Christianity the words it still uses today. When believers confess faith in "one God in three persons," they speak the formula this African lawyer created in second-century Carthage. Yet Tertullian never became a saint.

This book presents Christianity's great paradox: the man who defended believers against Roman persecution with unmatched brilliance eventually turned against Catholic bishops he condemned as spiritually compromised. The apologist who demolished heresies joined the rigorist Montanist movement, separating himself from the communion he had served magnificently.

What You'll Discover:

How a pagan lawyer became Latin Christianity's first literary champion