FROM THE PUBLISHER

This study of the puritanism of Tertullian concentrates on the theology of Africa and the teaching of those African theologians, Catholic and puritan, who immediately succeeded Tertullian.

Dr Daly argues from his research (this work is based on an unpublished thesis) that Tertullian's theology lent to African puritanism the strength which for centuries preserved and propagated it; this puritanism was a growth foreign to the Catholic tradition in Africa, an exotic plant which never found a home in Catholic soil. Tertullian's fullest influence could be exerted only outside the Church which he abandoned.