The third book in the Castalia Cathedra series of leatherbound Christian titles is APOLOGETICUS by Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullian.
Apologeticus is a text attributed to Tertullian according to Christian tradition, consisting of apologetic and polemic. In this work Tertullian defends Christianity, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated like all other sects of the Roman Empire. It is in this treatise that one finds the sentence "Plures efficimur, quotiens metimur a vobis: semen est sanguis Christianorum," which has been liberally and apocryphally translated as "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church" (Apologeticus, L.13). The simplest and most faithful rendering remains: We multiply when you reap us. The blood of Christians is seed.
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c. 155 – c. 220 AD) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against what he viewed as heresy, including Gnosticism.
Tertullian was the first theologian to write in Latin, and so has been called “the father of Latin Christianity“, as well as “the founder of Western theology”. He is perhaps most famous for being the first writer in Latin known to use the term trinity. In general, Tertullian enunciated a number of important new theological concepts and played a key role in the development of early Church doctrine.
The Castalia Cathedra edition is intended to be the first of what will eventually be three books containing the complete works of Tertullian. The first book, APOLOGETICUS, will contain the following works by Quintus Septimus:
Apologeticus
Adversus Iudaeos
Ad Nationes
Ad Scapulam
De Testimonio Animae
De Idololatria
De Spectaculis
De Corona Militis
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Wasn't it going to be Pascal?
This is exciting. Works like this are feverishly collected. I expect this to be a most coveted set.