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Donatism
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Donatism. The Donatists were a schismatic body in the African Church. They refused to accept
Caecilian, Bp. of Carthage, on the ground that his consecrator had been a
traditor in the
Diocletianic persecution. The Numidian bishops consecrated Majorinus as a rival to Caecilian; he was succeeded by Donatus, from whom the schism is named. A commission under
Miltiades, Bp. of Rome, investigated the dispute in 313 and decided against the Donatists. The State employed coercion between 316 and 321, and again early in the 5th cent. The schism nevertheless continued until the African Church was destroyed by the Arabs in the 7th–8th cent. The Donatists drew on African regional feeling, Numidian jealousy of Carthage, and economic unrest. Theologically they were rigorists and maintained that they alone formed the Church. They were vigorously opposed by St
Augustine.
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Serving the food of full-grown adults
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...by Islam.2 The factors that animated Donatism are extremely complex and controverted...view, shared by some historians,3 Donatism was motivated at root by sectarian arrogance...unblemished Christian tradition. As such, Donatism shook preAugustinian ecclesiology at...
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Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 16) July 20, 2008.(Preaching Helps)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...conflict over the weeds and wheat was Donatism. Heir to the rigorist tradition of Tertullian...church's scriptural defense against Donatism. While it would be nice to say that...amicably, the truth is that the end of Donatism came through the application of force...
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen.(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 2/8/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...spectacle is less an example of American Puritanism than of Donatism. The Donatists, a fourth-century Christian sect arising...communication of grace through the priesthood. The reason Donatism didn't survive is that it made the personal purity of its...
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Scandal time. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and public life).(child sexual abuse and priests)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and Catholics have been exuberant in their condemnation of Donatism. We all have a steep stake in the rightness of that condemnation. At the same time, the orthodoxy of anti-Donatism is not to be confused with moral indifference. All three...
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Liberty, Dominion and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180-398)
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...under Constantine and his successors to focused explorations of Donatism and the figures of Lucifer of Cagliari and Hilary of Poitiers...African Christian understandings (especially in Tertullian, but Donatism also makes an interesting case study), then in western Nicene...
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The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...actual principles of Manicheism, Platonism, Pelagianism, Donatism, and pagan aristocracy can be detected in the worldview of...contemporary Americans committed to the heresies of Manicheism, Donatism, Platonism, Pelagianism, and paganism. Consider as an example...
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The Archaeology of Early Christianity
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...include discoveries bearing on such issues as the importance of Donatism, the character and importance of Gnosticism and other dissenting...speak for themselves, e.g. movements such as Gnosticism, Donatism and Manichaeism. While appreciating the genuine accomplishments...
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Episcopal traditionalists convene; Conferees seek rebirth of 'united Anglicanism in North America'.(NATION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/10/2005; 700+ words
; ...said Episcopal conservatives may be unwittingly agreeing with Donatism, a fourth-century heresy. "It determined that the validity...who administers it," she said. The early church refuted Donatism, she said, and St. Augustine, she added, "would have...
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Possidius of Calama: A Study of the North African Episcopate at the Time of Augustine.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...a domesticated heir of Cyprian and the milieu that produced Donatism. The second half of the book moves from a literary to a historical...life of a man schooled in the episcopal culture in the age of Donatism (83-84). She reveals the deliberate way in which the Donatists...
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Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...doctrines were expressed in violence" (223). This violence was a necessary, not an accidental and remediable, feature of Donatism--as must needs be the case with any quest for absolute purification. He opposed the death penalty--with one exception...
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Donatism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Donatism , schismatic movement among Christians of N Africa (fl. 4th cent...and Donatist bishops at Carthage (411), that turned the tide against Donatism. Strong state suppression and ascetic excesses among some of their own...
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Donatus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...first year of his reign the Roman Church formally condemned Donatism at the Council of Arles in 314. But the Donatists became increasingly...Primary sources for the life of Donatus and the history of Donatism are found chiefly in the works of Optatus, Bishop of Milevis...
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Heresy
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...that Christ’s body was not material or real, but only the appearance of a body. —Docetae, n. pl. Donatism a heretical cult in N. Africa during the 4th through 7th centuries that emphasized high morality and rebaptism as necessary...
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Augustine, St, of Hippo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...Manichaean past, and in the next three years he wrote his deeply anti-Manichaean Confessions (q.v.). His opposition to Donatism helped to win the confidence of the Catholic community. He invited Donatist bishops to debate the central issue of unity versus...
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Miltiades, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Miltiades, St (d. 314), Pope from 310 or 311. His pontificate is remarkable for Constantine's victory over Maxentius and the issue of the so-called ‘Edict of Milan ’. Miltiades held a Council which condemned Donatism . Feast day, 10 Dec.
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