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Apologeticus ( or "Apologeticus") is Tertullian's most famous work, consisting of apologetic and polemic. In this work Tertullian defends Christianity, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated as all other sects of the Roman Empire. It is in this treatise that one finds the phrase: "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church" ("Apologeticus", Chapter 50).
The following outline and summary is based on Robert D. Sider's translation of "Apologeticus".
Tertullian's "Apologeticus" of 197 was ostensibly written in defense of persecuted Christians and addressed to Roman governors.
Although Paulus Orosius’s most important book was the "", his other two surviving books must also be taken into account: "Commonitorium" and "Liber Apologeticus".
"Apologeticus", as "A Translator's Defense" ed. Myron McShane, Translated into English by Mark Young. Harvard University Press. 2015. [A defense of the study of Hebrew] ISBN 978-0674088658
According to Raymond Brown's "Epistle of John", the source of the Comma Johanneum appears to be the Latin book "Liber Apologeticus" by Priscillian.
According to Hilarius Emonds, correcting a previously misread passage in Tertullian's "Apologeticus", Ichthyas was a leader in the oligarchic revolt in Megara in 375 BCE.
In his "Apologeticus", he was the first Latin author who qualified Christianity as the "vera religio" and systematically relegated the classical Roman Empire religion and other accepted cults to the position of mere "superstitions".
According to Raymond E. Brown (1995), the source of the "Comma Johanneum", a brief interpolation in the First Epistle of John, known since the fourth century, appears to be the Latin "Liber Apologeticus" by Priscillian.
Tertullian's brief "De testimonio animae" ("Concerning the Evidences of the Soul") is an appendix to the "Apologeticus", intended to illustrate the meaning of the phrase "testimonium animae naturaliter christianae" in chapter 17).
In his "Apologeticus", he was the first Latin author who qualified Christianity as the "vera religio", and systematically relegated the classical Roman Empire religion and other accepted cults to the position of mere "superstitions".
In his "Apologeticus", he was the first Latin author who qualified Christianity as the "vera religio" and systematically relegated the classical Roman Empire religion and other accepted cults to the position of mere "superstitions".
There is a similarity of content, if not of purpose, between this work and Tertullian's "Ad nationes"—published earlier in the same year—and it has been claimed that the latter is a finished draft of "Apologeticus". There arises also the question of similarity to Minucius Felix's dialogue "Octavius". Some paragraphs are shared by both texts: it is not known which predated the other.
Among his apologetic writings, the "Apologeticus," addressed to the Roman magistrates, is a most pungent defense of Christianity and the Christians against the reproaches of the pagans, and an important legacy of the ancient Church, proclaiming the principle of freedom of religion as an inalienable human right and demands a fair trial for Christians before they are condemned to death.
John Chapman looked closely at these materials and the section in "Liber Apologeticus" around the Priscillian faith statement "Pater Deus, Filius, Deus, et Spiritus sanctus Deus ; haec unum sunt in Christo Iesu". Chapman saw an indication that Priscillian found himself bound to defend the "Comma" by citing from the "Unity of the Church" Cyprian section.
Orosius had a confrontation with the Archbishop of Jerusalem, John II at the synod, in which Orosius was accused of heresy in front of the entire conclave. As his defence Orosius wrote his second book "Liber Apologeticus", in which he emphatically rejected the accusation.
Further state persecutions were desultory until the 3rd century, though Tertullian's "Apologeticus" of 197 was ostensibly written in defense of persecuted Christians and addressed to Roman governors. The Edict of Septimius Severus familiar in Christian history is doubted by some secular historians to have existed outside Christian martyrology.
He wrote seventeen surviving tracts which are mostly apologetics for the pope's policy, defences of papal supremacy or vindications of men who advocated or enforced it in Germany. Chief among these are: "De prohibendâ sacerdotum incontinentiâ" (against married clergy); "De damnatione schismaticorum" and "Apologeticus super excommunicationem Gregorii VII" (justifying excommunication of schismatics and of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and his partisans).
"Apologeticus" has the typical concerns of other apologetic works of his time, though it is presented in a much more complex manner. According to Wright, the text is constantly shifting "from the philosophical mode to the rhetorical and even juridical". Drawing from his training in literature and law, Tertullian demonstrates his talents as a Latinist and a rhetorician in an attempt to defend his newfound Christian faith. Tertullian's modern editor :Otto Bardenhewer further contends that Apologeticus is calm in tone, "a model of judicial discussion". Unlike previous apologists of Christianity, whose appeals for tolerance were made in the name of reason and humanity, Tertullian, influenced by his legal training, spoke as a jurist convinced of the injustice of the laws under which the Christians were persecuted.
One traditional account of persecution is the Persecution in Lyon in which Christians were purportedly mass-slaughtered by being thrown to wild beasts under the decree of Roman officials for reportedly refusing to renounce their faith according to St. Irenaeus. The sole source for this event is early Christian historian Eusebius of Caesarea's "Church History", an account written in Egypt in the 4th century. Tertullian's "Apologeticus" of 197 was ostensibly written in defense of persecuted Christians and was addressed to Roman governors.