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Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian's writings. In light of postcolonial concerns, this study utilizes the categories of Roman colonizers, indigenous Africans and new elites. The third category, new elites, is actually intended to destabilize the other two, denying any "essential" Roman or African identity. Thereafter, samples from Tertullian's writings serve to illustrate comparisons of his own identities and the identities of his rhetorical opponents. The overall study finds Tertullian's identities to be manifold, complex and discursive. Additionally, his writings are understood to reflect antagonism toward Romans, including Christian Romans (which is significant for his so-called Montanism), and Romanized Africans. While Tertullian accommodates much from Graeco-Roman literature, laws and customs, he nevertheless retains a strongly stated non-Roman-ness and an African-ity, which is highlighted in the present monograph.

Theology --- Ethnology --- Théologie --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Tertullian, --- Criticism and interpretation --- 276 =71 TERTULLIANUS, QUINTUS SEPTIMUS FLORENS --- Latijnse patrologie--TERTULLIANUS, QUINTUS SEPTIMUS FLORENS --- Tertullian. --- Tertullien --- Tertullian --- Théologie --- Tertullianus, Quintus Septimus Florens --- Tertulian, --- Tertuliano, --- Tertul·lià, --- Tertul·lià, Q. S. Florent, --- Tertulliano, --- Tertulliano, Q. S. F. --- Tertulliano, Quinto Settimio Fiorente, --- Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius Florens --- Tertullianus, Quintus Septimus Florens, --- Tertullien, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- African Christianity. --- Montanism. --- Roman Africa.

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Tertullian was the first western Christian to write theology, defending Christians against the hostility of the Roman state, as well as arguing against Marcion, Praxeas and theosophical fantasy. A complex thinker, Tertullian has, in the modern era, been rejected by both liberal Christianity and its secular critics. But his ideas have become more accessible in our century, which has seen the destruction of Enlightenment beliefs that reason should lead to a quasi-mathematical system. The work of Gödel, Wittgenstein, Rorty and so many others has opened up the way for an understanding of Tertullian's passion for opposites, contingency and rational argument. For a long time misquoted and misused, Tertullian now calls for sustained analysis and interpretation. This book offers a major reappraisal of his theology and its influence on the shape of the western Christian tradition.

Theology, Doctrinal --- Théologie dogmatique --- History --- Histoire --- Tertullian, --- 276 =71 TERTULLIANUS, QUINTUS SEPTIMUS FLORENS --- -Christian doctrines --- Christianity --- Doctrinal theology --- Doctrines, Christian --- Dogmatic theology --- Fundamental theology --- Systematic theology --- Theology, Dogmatic --- Theology, Systematic --- Theology --- Latijnse patrologie--TERTULLIANUS, QUINTUS SEPTIMUS FLORENS --- -Doctrines --- Tertullian --- -Latijnse patrologie--TERTULLIANUS, QUINTUS SEPTIMUS FLORENS --- -Tertullian --- Tertullien --- Théologie dogmatique --- Tertulian, --- Tertuliano, --- Tertul·lià, --- Tertul·lià, Q. S. Florent, --- Tertulliano, --- Tertulliano, Q. S. F. --- Tertulliano, Quinto Settimio Fiorente, --- Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius Florens --- Tertullianus, Quintus Septimus Florens, --- Tertullien, --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Theology, Doctrinal - History - Early church, ca. 30-600.