Apology. De Spectaculis. Minucius Felix: Octavius

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By Minucius Felix and Tertullian

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Apology. De Spectaculis. Minucius Felix: Octavius features significant early Christian writings by Tertullian and Minucius Felix. Tertullian, a learned North African writer and former lawyer, defends Christianity against critics and heresies, blending passionate faith with rigorous reasoning in Apologeticus and De Spectaculis. Minucius Felix's Octavius is a lively, accessible dialogue on religion and morality, presenting a reasoned debate between a Christian and an unbeliever in late second-century Rome, illustrating contemporary social and religious life.
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Ideal for readers interested in early Christian literature, classical theology, and those exploring the historical defence of Christianity within the Roman Empire.

Tertullian founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with Church practice, defended Christianity, attacked heresy, and pondered morality. Octavius by Minucius Felix, an early Christian writer of unknown date, is a debate between a believer and non-believer that depicts Roman religion and society.

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The African Q. Septimus Florens Tertullianus (ca. 150–222 CE), the great Christian writer, was born a soldier's son at Carthage, educated in Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and medicine. He studied law and became a pleader, remaining a clever and often tortuous arguer. At Rome, he became a learned and militant Christian. After a visit to churches in Greece (and Asia Minor?), he returned to Carthage and in his writings there founded a Christian Latin language and literature, toiling to fuse enthusiasm with reason; to unite the demands of the Bible with the practice of the Church; and to continue to vindicate the Church's possession of the true doctrine in the face of unbelievers, Jews, Gnostics, and others.

In some of his many works, he defended Christianity, in others he attacked heretical people and beliefs; in others he dealt with morals. In this volume, we present Apologeticus and De Spectaculis.

Of Minucius, an early Christian writer of unknown date, we have only Octavius, a vigorous and readable debate between an unbeliever and a Christian friend of Minucius, Octavius Ianuarius, a lawyer sitting on the seashore at Ostia. Minucius himself acts as presiding judge. Octavius wins the argument. The whole work presents a picture of social and religious conditions in Rome, apparently about the end of the second century.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674992764

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 January 1931

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: Index

Contributors:

Translated by T. R. Glover
Translated by Gerald H. Rendall
Translated by T. R. Glover
Translated by Gerald H. Rendall
Translated by T. R. Glover
Translated by Gerald H. Rendall

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 345g

Pages: 480

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Biography & Memoir Minucius Felix Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Loeb Classical Library Tertullian

About the Author

Terrot Reaveley Glover (1869–1943) was Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Gerald Henry Rendall (1851–1945) was Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool and Headmaster of Charterhouse School.