Ad Martyras and The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas: Easy to Read Layout

by Tertullian, Sydney Thelwall (Translator), Robert Ernest Wallis (Translator)

68 pages, Paperback

Published July 17, 2025

About the author

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian (c. 160 – c. 220 AD), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology." Though conservative, he did originate and advance new theology to the early Church. He is perhaps most famous for being the oldest extant Latin writer to use the term Trinity (Latin trinitas), and giving the oldest extant formal exposition of a Trinitarian theology. Other Latin formulations that first appear in his work are "three Persons, one Substance" as the Latin "tres Personae, una Substantia" (itself from the Koine Greek "treis Hypostases, Homoousios"). He wrote his trinitarian formula after becoming a Montanist; his ideas were at first rejected as heresy by the church at large, but later accepted as Christian orthodoxy.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I appreciated the parts written by Perpetua herself most. This is very belief focused so it was hard to not bring my own beliefs to the table while reading. The language is dense despite its short lengh. Definitely an interesting account regardless. 2.5 stars.