. . "Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian (/t\u0259r\u02C8t\u028Cli\u0259n/; c. 155 \u2013 c. 240 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, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism."@en . . "Christian theologian" . "0155Z"^^ . . "Tertullian"@en . . "0235Z"^^ .