On Baptism Against the Donatists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Baptism Against the Donatists write by Saint Augustine of Hippo. This book was released on . On Baptism Against the Donatists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Against the Donatists
Against the Donatists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against the Donatists write by Saint Optatus (Bishop of Mileve). This book was released on 1997. Against the Donatists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Writings of St. Augustine Against the Donatists
The Writings of St. Augustine Against the Donatists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Writings of St. Augustine Against the Donatists write by Augustine of Hippo. This book was released on 2014-05-16. The Writings of St. Augustine Against the Donatists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Donatist schism in Africa began in 311 and flourished just one hundred years, until the conference at Carthage in 411, after which its importance waned. St. Augustine began his victorious campaign against Donatism soon after he was ordained priest in 391. His popular psalm or "Abecedarium" against the Donatists was intended to make known to the people the arguments set forth by St. Optatus, with the same conciliatory end in view. It shows that the sect was founded by traditors, condemned by pope and council, separated from the whole world, a cause of division, violence, and bloodshed; the true Church is the one Vine, whose branches are over all the earth. After St. Augustine had become bishop in 395, he obtained conferences with some of the Donatist leaders, though not with his rival at Hippo. In 400 he wrote three books against the letter of Parmenianus, refuting his calumnies and his arguments from Scripture. More important were his seven books on baptism, in which, after developing the principle already laid down by St. Optatus, that the effect of the sacrament is independent of the holiness of the minister, he shows in great detail that the authority of St. Cyprian is more awkward than convenient for the Donatists. The principal Donatist controversialist of the day was Petilianus, Bishop of Constantine, a successor of the traditor Silvanus. St. Augustine wrote two books in reply to a letter of his against the Church, adding a third book to answer another letter in which he was himself attacked by Petilianus. Before this last book he published his "De Unitate ecclesiae" about 403. To these works must be added some sermons and some letters which are real treatises.
Augustine in His Own Words
Augustine in His Own Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Augustine in His Own Words write by Saint Augustine (of Hippo). This book was released on 2010. Augustine in His Own Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age write by Jesse A. Hoover. This book was released on 2018-05-25. The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
