Ante-Nicene Fathers

Tertullian (155–220)

North African apologist who coined much Latin theological vocabulary, including "Trinitas." Tertullian was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against what he viewed as heresy, including Gnosticism.

Works online

The Apology
On Idolatry
De Spectaculis (The Shows)
De Corona (The Chaplet)
To Scapula
Ad Nationes
An Answer to the Jews
The Soul's Testimony
A Treatise on the Soul
The Prescription Against Heretics
Against Marcion
Against Hermogenes
Against the Valentinians
On the Flesh of Christ
On the Resurrection of the Flesh
Against Praxeas
Scorpiace
Appendix (Against All Heresies)
On Repentance
On Baptism
On Prayer
Ad Martyras
The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity
Of Patience
On the Pallium
On the Apparel of Women
On the Veiling of Virgins
To His Wife
On Exhortation to Chastity
On Monogamy
On Modesty
On Fasting
De Fuga in Persecutione

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