Practical Works.

        The majority of these were practical in character, dealing with Christian morality and true Christian behavior in situations of certain kinds or in relation to special groups and matters. Tertullian defends the Christian soldier who refuses to wear the chaplet or wreath on his head, regarding it as a heathenish practice (On the Chaplet). He condemns public games, shows, and theatrical and gladiatorial exhibitions as brutal, immoral, and interwoven with pagan rites (On Idolatry). He also wrote On Veiling Virgins, On the Adornment of Women, On Baptism, On Patience, On Prayer, On Modesty, and On Repentance.