Editing Tertullian (section)

==== The Church ====
According to James Puglisi, Tertullian interpreted that in Matthew 16:18–19 "the rock" refers to Peter. For him, Peter is the type of the one Church and its origins, this Church, is now present in a variety of local churches.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Puglisi |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZ2vkWM8IpwC&dq=Tertullian+pope+calixtus&pg=PA36 |title=How Can the Petrine Ministry Be a Service to the Unity of the Universal Church? |date=2010-11-09 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans |isbn=978-0-8028-4862-8 |language=en}}</ref>.He mocked [[Pope Callixtus I|Pope Calixtus]] or [[Agrippinus of Carthage|Agrippinus]] (it is debated which one he was referring to) when he challenged him on the Church forgiving capital sinners and letting them back into the church.<ref name=":3" /> He believed that the people who committed grave sins, such as sorcery, fornication and murder, should not be let inside the church.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gomez |first=Cristina Lledo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7mObDwAAQBAJ&dq=Tertullian+Fornicators&pg=PT79 |title=The Church as Woman and Mother: Historical and Theological Foundations |date=2018 |publisher=Paulist Press |isbn=978-1-58768-694-8 |language=en}}</ref>