At the Oxford Patristic Conference 2011 I tried to show the important
role played by the concept of "innocence" in Tertullian's apologetic
strategy: at the beginning of his Apologeticum, innocence is
employed in its etymological meaning of in-nocentia, i.e. non guilty in
front of the Roman Law, in order to defend the presence of the
Christians within Roman Empire. At the end of the text, however,
innocence turns into a Christian ethical virtue. This paper aims at
extending the analysis of Tertullian's use of that concept to the
non-apologetic corpus, focusing mainly on writings directed to a
Christian audience. Which meaning does it assume there and why does
Tertullian refers to if so often?
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