Tertullian offers many paradoxes: an African who was a master of Latin and Greek rhetoric and literature; the principal propagator (if not creator) of theological Latin, but sharp critic of the Roman Church; a beneficiary of Roman rule and culture, but defender of the persecuted Christian Church; outspoken opponent of heresy, but suspect of being a schismatic; champion of rational argument, but often quoted as representative of Christian anti-rationalism.
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J. H. Waszink and J. C. M. van Winden (eds), De idolatria (Leiden : Brill, 1987).
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E. Evans (ed.), Adversus Praxean (London: SPCK, 1948); De Oratione (London: SPCK, 1953); De carne Christi (London: SPCK, 1956); De resurrectione carnis (London: SPCK, 1960); De baptismo (London: SPCK, 1964); Adversus Marcionem, 2 vols, Oxford Early Christian Texts (Oxford: Clarendon, 1972).
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S. Thelwell and P. Holmes, Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian, Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vols 7, 11, 15, 18 (Edinburgh, 1885); reprint Ante-Nicene Fathers, vols 3-4 (Peabody, MA : Hendrickson, 1995).
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G.D. Dunn, Tertullian (London: Routledge, 2004), introduction with translation of Against the Jews, Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting, and On the Veiling of Virgins.
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T.D. Barnes, Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971; reprint with postscript, 1985).
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R. Braun, Deus christianorum: recherches sur le vocabulaire doctrinal de Tertullien , 2nd edn (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1977).
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T.P. O'Malley, Tertullian and the Bible: Language, Imagery, Exegesis ( Nijmegen: Dekker & Van de Vegt, 1967).
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E. Osborn, Tertullian, First Theologian of the West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
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D. Rankin, Tertullian and the Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
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R.D. Sider, Ancient Rhetoric and the Art of Tertullian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
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A. Viciano, Cristo Salvador y Liberador del hombre: estudio sobre la soteriología de Tertulliano (Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra , 1986).
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D.E. Wilhite, Tertullian the African (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007).
