Aided with a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the resident of Brooklyn, New York, is in Heidelberg, Germany, ...

Tobias Robert Philip, a doctoral degree student at Rutgers-New Brunswick who is focused on the classics, finds a "philologist ...

Tertullian's "de Virginibus Velandis" is not simply a somewhat neglected ascetic treatise but a rhetorical treatise about asceticism. The use of classical rhetoric as a modern interpretative tool for ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing along the gallery of great figures of the early Church Pope Benedict XVI devoted his teaching at the Wednesday general audience on 30 May to Tertullian, known ...

Harvard Theological Review has been a central forum for scholars of religion since its founding in 1908. It continues to publish compelling original research that contributes to the development of ...

In this work, Tertullian drew on developments within Roman law and on Cicero’s political philosophy to defend “the freedom of religion” (libertas religionis) for minority Christian and Jewish ...

Will Inboden makes a Tertullian reference, but apparently doesn’t know Tertullian’s answer to the rhetorical question: “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” famously asked the early ...

Tertullian said that one of the pleasures of the blessed in heaven is witnessing the torments of the damned in hell. Tertullian’s teaching has been rejected as heresy by the Church, but that doesn’t ...

The earliest descriptions, such as Tertullian’s, indicate that the cross was made with one finger—probably the thumb—on the forehead in the shape of a Hebrew T or a Greek X, letters that ...