Optatus, Against the Donatists
By: translated and edited by Mark Edwards.
Contributors: Edwards, M. J.
Series: Translated texts for historians ;; v. 27
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Donatists -- Controversial literature.
Other titles: Against the Donatists
Description: Optatus, Bishop of Milevis in North Africa in the late fourth century, wrote a detailed refutation of Donatist claims to be the one true and righteous church, an ark of purity in a world which was still corrupt despite Constantine's support for Christianity. This new translation of Optatus's work is the first since 1917, and makes full use of modern scholarship in its annotation and Introduction. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-209) and index.