Quirinus Breen

The Italian Reformers

dence. Dr. McGiffert holds that Tertullian, for instance, if not a lawyer was at least possessed of a legalistic type of mind. It would seem, therefore, natural to ask, if that be the case, why contemporary legal terms and practices should not be used for a better understanding of Tertullians own thought. Certainly the vocabularies which Tertullian used, and in particular his use of the term persona, are directly derived from the Graeco-Roman milieu. It would seem also that Dr. McGifferts intimate acquaintance with Augustines thought would have led him to a rather different interpretation of his conversion. If Augustine was a Christian before his conversion