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The Donatist Schism - Controversy and Contexts (Hardcover)
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The Donatist Schism - Controversy and Contexts (Hardcover)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, Contexts, 2
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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.
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