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The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age (Hardcover)
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The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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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.
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