Bücher von Tertullian of Carthage

Tertullian's apology says, "That ever judges, who are commissioned to torture for the confession of truth, should abuse it upon Christians only, for the extortion of a lie! You demand what I am, and I say I am a Christian; why do you torture me to unsay it?

De Carne Christi (ca. 203-206) is a polemical work by Tertullian against the Gnostic Docetism of Marcion, Apelles, Valentinus and Alexander. It purports that the body of Christ was a real human body, taken from the virginal body of Mary, but not by way of human procreation.

In Which the Author Gives a Concise Account of, Together with Sundry Caustic Animadversions on, the Very Fantastic Theology of the Sect. This Treatise is Professedly Taken from the Writings of Justin, Miltiades, Iren us, and Proculus.

De Spectaculis, also known as On the Spectacles or The Shows, is a surviving moral and ascetic treatise by Tertullian. Written somewhere between 197-202, the work looks at the moral legitimacy and consequences of Christians attending the circus, theatre, or amphitheatre.

Tertullian, the african church father, states his primary thesis that "The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry."

Saints Perpetua and Felicity, a young noblewoman and her slave, were martyred for their faith in A.D. 203, under the emperor Severus. At the time of their arrest, Perpetua had an infant son, and Felicity was pregnant