Editing Tertullian (section)

=== General character ===
Thirty-one works are extant, together with fragments of more. Some fifteen works in Latin or Greek are lost, some as recently as the 9th century (''De Paradiso, De superstitione saeculi, De carne et anima'' were all extant in the now damaged [[Codex Agobardinus]] in 814 AD). Tertullian's writings cover the whole theological field of the time{{snd}}[[apologetics]] against paganism and Judaism, [[polemic]]s, polity, discipline, and morals, or the whole reorganization of human life on a Christian basis; they gave a picture of the religious life and thought of the time which is of great interest to the church historian.

Like other early [[Christianity|Christian]] writers Tertullian used the term ''paganus'' to mean "civilian" as a contrast to the "soldiers of Christ".<ref>Ernest Weekley, ''Etymological Dictionary of English'', s.v. "pagan".</ref> The motif of [[Miles Christianus|Miles Christi]] did not assume the literal meaning of participation in war until Church doctrines justifying Christian participation in battle were developed around the 5th century.<ref>{{Cite journal| issn = 1449-9320| volume = 8| issue = Journal Article| pages = 77–| last = Iwanczak| first = Wojciech| title = Miles Christi: the medieval ideal of knighthood| journal = Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association| date = 2012| url = http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA454359740&asid=b7bcab1e0aab147ff62b696318501ae7}}</ref> In the 2nd-century writings of Tertullian, ''paganus'' meant a "civilian" who was lacking self-discipline. In ''De Corona Militis'' XI.V he writes:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cameron|first=Alan G.|author-link=Alan Cameron (classical scholar)|title=The Last Pagans of Rome|year=2011|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-978091-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHgvpINWV_QC|oclc=553365192}}</ref>
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 |style="padding-left: 6em; padding-right: 1em;"|''Apud hunc [Christum] tam miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles fidelis''.<ref>[[s:la:De corona militis#11|''De Corona Militis'' XI.V]]</ref>
 |style="padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 6em;"|With Him [Christ] the faithful citizen is a soldier, just as the faithful soldier is a citizen.<ref>[[s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/The Chaplet, or De Corona/Chapter XI|Ante-Nicene Fathers III, De Corona XI]]</ref>
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