Download or read book Tertullian #1 'Five books against Marcion written by Apostle Arne Horn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus,anglicizedasTertullian(/tərˈtʌliən/), c. 155 - c. 240 AD,was a prolific earlyChristian author fromCarthagein theRoman province of Africa.He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus ofLatin Christian literature. He also was a notable earlyChristian apologistand a polemicist againstheresy, including contemporaryChristian Gnosticism.Tertullian has been called "the father ofLatin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."