The Donatist Church
Subtitle: a movement of protest in Roman North Africa
By: by W.H.C. Frend.
Series: Oxford scholarly classics
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Donatists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-351) and index.
Originally published: 1971.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note:  LIST OF MAPS ix; value: ABBREVIATIONS X; value: INTRODUCTION xi; value: I. THE PROBLEM OF DONATISM: ORIGINS OF THE SCHISM I; value: II. CARTHAGE AND NUMIDIA 25; value: III. TOWN AND COUNTRY IN ROMAN AFRICA 32; value: IV. THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF DONATISM 48; value: V. NORTH AFRICA IN THE FOURTH CENTURY A.D. 60; value: VI. THE RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND OF DONATISM: THE; value: DECLINE OF PAGANISM 76; value: VII. THE EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY IN NORTH AFRICA 87; value: VIII. FACTORS RELATING TO THE CONVERSION OF NORTH; value: AFRICA TO CHRISTIANITY 94; value: IX. ARFICAN CHURCH DIVISIONS IN THE TIME OF TERTUL-; value: LIAN, 197-225 112; value: X. THE AFRICAN CHURCH IN THE TIME OF CYPRIAN 125; value: XI. CONSTANTINE AND THE DONATIST CHURCH, 313-37 14I; value: XII. THE CONSOLIDATION OF DONATISM, 337-63 169; value: XIII. THE AGE OF PARMENIAN, 363-91 193; value: XIV. THE RULE OF OPTATUS AND GILDO, 386-98 208; value: XV. ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE DONATISTS 227; value: XVI. THE ECLIPSE OF DONATISM, 399-410 244; value: XVII. THE CONFERENCE OF CARTHAGE, 41 I 275; value: XVIII. THE AFTERMATH OF THE CONFERENCE, 412-29 290; value: XIX. THE LAST PHASE: DONATISM IN VANDAL AND BYZANTINE; value: AFRICA 300; value: XX. TWO CHURCHES. TWO CITIES 315; value: EPILOGUE 333; value: APPENDIX: EXTANT DONATIST TEXTS 337; value: BIBLIOGRAPHY 339; value: INDEX 352; value: MAPS at end.