with the problems of his day. St. Jerome, unquestionably a critic above suspicion, exclaims in one of his letters:5 ‘Can anyone be more learned, more acute of mind than Tertullian? His Apology and his books Against the Gentiles contain all the wisdom of the world.’ Vincent of Lerin6 states that Tertullian was to the Latins what Origen was to the Greeks and goes so far in his praise as to say: ‘Who was more learned that this man? Who more competent in things divine and human? With his amazing mental