Tertullian's Christian chameleon

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2023-06
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Woods, David
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10.1017/S0009838823000137
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It is argued that Tertullian's relatively lengthy description of a chameleon in his De pallio serves as a metaphor not so much for the convert to a philosophical way of life in general but for the convert to Christianity in particular. The argument rests on the unusual emphases within this description which recall different features of Christianity or popular beliefs about the same.
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Tertullian , Chameleon , Mantle , Philosophy , Christianity , Conversion , Apologetics
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Woods, D. (2023) ‘Tertullian’s Christian Chameleon’, The Classical Quarterly, 73(1), pp. 488–493. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000137
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.