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Ad Nationes: To the Nations
- (Lighthouse Church Fathers)
- Narrated by: Claire Green
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
Ad Nationes (To the Nations) shows that the Roman actions taken against the early Christians are violations of justice. This is followed by a listing of Roman slanders against the Christians. Tertullian points out the hypocrisy, since Romans hardly conduct themselves in anything resembling moral behavior. The second book condemns and criticizes Roman religion and their deities, in particular.
“The hatred held by the heathen against the Christians is unjust, because it is based on culpable ignorance. One proof of that ignorance of yours, which condemns whilst it excuses your injustice, is at once apparent in the fact that all who once shared in your ignorance and hatred (of the Christian religion), as soon as they have come to know it, leave off their hatred when they cease to be ignorant; nay more, they actually themselves become what they had hated, and take to hating what they had once been. Day after day, indeed, you groan over the increasing number of the Christians. Your constant cry is, that the state is beset (by us); that Christians are in your fields, in your camps, in your islands.” (Tertullian, AD 197)
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- Dennis Sommers
- 13-06-21
Seriously counterproductive reader!!!
It is brave and even generous of any company wishing to publish texts of the church fathers and how delighted I was to find zTertullian on Audible. That said, I am disappointed beyond anger to encounter such a reader as Claire Green: had she appeared at my home as a volunteer reader I’d have sent her away and contacted the charity that she worked for with the advice that she had been inappropriately placed.
Frankly it is puzzling to understand how any editor could publish and charge money for such a performance, not to mention one with obviously ethical and educational purpose.
There are many American readers who simply let the text speak for itself by reading slowly and clearly with minimum expression, and who get panned for it by listeners who must be accustomed to TV or radio drama, but that style, perhaps with a little nuance, is what this text requires: perhaps it’s economy that dictates that a volunteer is all that can be afforded, given the ‘niche’ market here, but for my part I’ll be avoiding any publication read by Claire Green, who sounds as though she has just emerged from surviving a train crash. Even at 90% speed she is all but incomprehensible.
I’m truly sorry to have to write such a poor review when I was so initially pleased to find Tertullian in audio format, but please keep up and do better next time.
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