Author: W. H. C. FrendPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532697554
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The Donatist Church
Author: W. H. C. FrendPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532697554
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age
Author: Jesse A. HooverPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192559400
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa—modern Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya—before fading away sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries. Hoover studies how Donatists perceived the end of the world to offer a glimpse into the inner life of the dissident communion: what it valued, whom it feared, and how it defined its place in history while on the cusp of history's end. By recovering these appeals to apocalyptic themes in surviving Donatist writings, this study uncovers a significant element within the dissident movement's self-perception that has so far gone unexamined. In contrast to previous assessments, it argues that such eschatological expectations are not out of sync with the wider world of Latin Christianity in late antiquity, and that they functioned as an effective polemical strategy designed to counter their opponents' claim to be the true church in North Africa.
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age
Author: Jesse A. HooverPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019882551X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa--modern Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya--before fading away sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries. Hoover studies how Donatists perceived the end of the world to offer a glimpse into the inner life of the dissident communion: what it valued, whom it feared, and how it defined its place in history while on the cusp of history's end. By recovering these appeals to apocalyptic themes in surviving Donatist writings, this study uncovers a significant element within the dissident movement's self-perception that has so far gone unexamined. In contrast to previous assessments, it argues that such eschatological expectations are not out of sync with the wider world of Latin Christianity in late antiquity, and that they functioned as an effective polemical strategy designed to counter their opponents' claim to be the true church in North Africa.
On Baptism Against the Donatists
Author: Saint Augustine of HippoPublisher: Aeterna Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This treatise was written about 400 A.D. Concerning it Aug. in Retract. Book II. c. xviii., says: I have written seven books on Baptism against the Donatists, who strive to defend themselves by the authority of the most blessed bishop and martyr Cyprian; in which I show that nothing is so effectual for the refutation of the Donatists, and for shutting their mouths directly from upholding their schism against the Catholic Church, as the letters and act of Cyprian. Aeterna Press
The Donatist Schism
Author: Richard MilesPublisher: Translated Texts for Historian
ISBN: 9781781382813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first book for over twenty years to undertake a holistic examination of the Donatist Controversy, a bilious and sometimes violent schism that broke out in the North African Christian Church in the early years of the century AD and which continued up until the sixth century AD. What made this religious dispute so important was that its protagonists brought to the fore a number of issues and practices that had empire-wide ramifications for how the Christian church and the Roman imperial government dealt with the growing number of dissidents in their ranks. Very significantly it was during the Donatist Controversy that Augustine of Hippo, who was heavily involved in the dispute, developed the idea of 'tough love' in dealing with those at odds with the tenets of the main church, which in turn acted as the justification for the later brutal excesses of the Inquisition. In order to reappraise the Donatist Controversy for the first time in many years, 14 specialists in the religious, cultural, social, legal and political history as well as the archaeology of Late Antique North Africa have examined what was one of the most significant religious controversies in the Late Roman World through a set of key contexts that explain its significance the Donatist Schism not just in North Africa but across the whole Roman Empire, and beyond.
Saint Augustine and the Donatist Controversy
Author: Geoffrey G. WillisPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597521426
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This detailed study gives a convincing picture of an interesting phase in North African nationalism, and illustrates how significant was the controversy in forcing Augustine to formulate his doctrines of the Church, the relations between Church and State, and the administration of the Sacraments.
Donatist Martyr Stories
Author: Maureen A. TilleyPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853239314
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
With this volume, Donatism regains its voice and its hagiography is available in English for the first time. The stories included provide a unique opportunity to glimpse the daily life of the church which for over a century was the faith of the majority of North African Christians. The narratives represent the lives and deaths of Christians who carried on pre-Constantine traditions from the fourth century to the advent of Islam.
The Bible in Christian North Africa
Author: Maureen A. TilleyPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451414523
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In today's demands for moral absolutes, the puritanism of early Christian Donatists is reflected. Maureen A. Tilley's study gives new insight into the Donatist church by focusing attention on the surviving Donatist controversies. She persuasively shows how Donatist interpretations of Scripture correlate with changes in the social setting of their church.
Writings In Connection with the Donatist Controversy
Author: Aurelius AugustinePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734079861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Writings In Connection with the Donatist Controversy by Aurelius Augustine
Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Donatists
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description