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.
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.
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.
Apologeticum
The name 'Christian' treated as itself a crime, apart from any proven deed.
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.
so that the name of that rival method, on the strength of crimes presumed and not proved, may be condemned upon its own confession alone.
" And even when it is wrongly pronounced "Chrestian" by you — for you have not even a sure knowledge of the name — it is formed from "sweetness" or "kindness.