The Donatist schism : controversy and contexts
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The Donatist schism : controversy and contexts
（Translated texts for historians, contexts, 2）
Liverpool University Press, 2018
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"... the result of a two-day Colloquium held at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 25 and 26 March 2014 under the auspices of the Ancient North Africa Research Network, University of Sydny"--Acknowledgements
Bibliography: p. [362]-386
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1. The Donatist Controversy: Parallel Histories, Multiple Narratives
Richard Miles
2. The Course of the Donatist Schism in Late Roman North Africa
John Whitehouse
3. The Scholarship of the Donatist Controversy
John Whitehouse
4. Martyr Veneration in Late Antique North Africa
Candida Moss
5. Donatist Martyrs, Stories and Attitudes
Alan Dearn
6. The Donatist Schism and Theology
Mark Edwards
7. Rural Society in North Africa
Cam Grey
8. Circumcelliones, Rural Society and Communal Violence in Late Antique North Africa
Bruno Pottier
9. Imperial Legislation and the Donatist Controversy: From Constantine to Honorius
Noel Lenski 172-226
10 The Conference of Carthage Reconsidered
Neil McLynn
11. Textual Communities and the Donatist Controversy
Richard Miles
12. Charitable Correction and Ecclesiastical Unity in Augustine's Contra Epistulam Parmeniani
Jennifer Ebbeler
13. Augustine in Controversy with the Donatists before 411*
Eric Rebillard
14. Tracing the Donatist presence in North Africa: An Archaeological Perspective
Anna Leone
15. Donatism in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
Jonathan Conant
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