The first great Christian writer in Latin, from Carthage around A.D. 200 — furious, funny, and endlessly quotable. His defence of Christians before Roman magistrates, and the writings on idolatry, the games, the soldier's crown, baptism, prayer and patience.
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Contents
A Treatise on the Soul
1Ask God, Not the Philosophers2The Soul Has a Body3Soul, Breath, and Mind4The Soul’s Ruling Power5The Truth of the Senses6The Mind Is Never Absent7One Nature, Many Differences8The Child in the Womb9Where Souls Begin10Souls Do Not Come Back11Punished in Another Body12The Soul from the Womb13The Mirror of Death14The Gates of Horn and Ivory15Where the Soul Goes16Summoning the Dead17Waiting in Hades