The Pope concluded by that Tertullian “remains an interesting witness of the early Church when Christian found themselves to be authentic subjects of a ‘new culture’ on close comparison between the ...

The first philosophical defense of religious freedom emerged, not in the wake of post-Reformation wars of religion or in the writings of Medieval cannon lawyers and Jewish and Christian Renaissance ...

The ideas that undergird religious freedom have their origins centuries earlier in the writings of the church fathers and in medieval thinkers. They did not forge a doctrine of religious freedom, ...

In his apologetic writings, Tertullian set two objectives for himself: "refuting the terrible accusations made by pagans against the new religion and, in a more constructive and missionary sense ...

(See "The Original Christian Bumper Sticker" by Collin Hansen.) Tertullian, a theologian writing at beginning of the third century, interpreted this practice as a symbol of baptism: "But we small ...