(August 13, 2014 at 1:32 pm)Michael Wrote: That just comes across as pejorative and polemical dismissal Minimalist. I think that damages, rather than supports, the atheist cause. It's just the flip side of 'the Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it'. It comes across, to me, simply as fundamentalism from another perspective. When you look at the scholarly world, generations have engaged with Tertullian in a much more considered and balanced way.
Michael, several of us have presented the case why Tertullian is not a worthy source on this subject: distance in time, lack of objectivity, lack of support for his claims of Tiberius' alleged conversion, lack of any such claimed records, ax to grind, etc.
What can you offer for your scholarly, much more considered and balanced way?
