The Christian name
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Christian name · nomen Christianum · the name
in the texts
Ad Nationes
The label 'Christian' itself, argued to be the true object of persecution rather than any demonstrated crime.
and therefore you neither believe what is not proved, and, lest it be readily disproved, you are unwilling to inquire, so that the hated name may be punished on the presumption of crimes.
Although the Christian name was not yet on earth at that time, still the truth was always condemned.
For names too have been so established that they have their boundaries between being called and being.
Apologeticum
The name 'Christian' treated as itself a crime, apart from any proven deed.
Plainly, if anyone has proved the sect to be evil, and so its founder also to be evil, he will prove the name to be evil too, deserving of hatred for the guilt of the sect and its founder.
If a Christian is guilty of no crime that has a name, then "Christian" is a very monstrous thing, if the crime lies in the name alone.
Since, then, you arrange everything for us otherwise than for the rest of the guilty, bending all your effort to this single end, that we may be cut off from that name — for we are cut off if we do what non-Christians do — you can understand that it is not any crime that is at issue, but a name, which is pursued by a certain method of rival operation, whose first aim is this: