The Bible in Christian North Africa: The Donatist World

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Fortress Press - 232 Seiten
In today's demands for moral absolutes, the puritanism of early Christian Donatists is reflected. Maureen A. Tilley's study gives new insight into the Donatist church by focusing attention on the surviving Donatist controversies. She persuasively shows how Donatist interpretations of Scripture correlate with changes in the social setting of their church.
 

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Donatist Predecessors
18
Christianity in North Africa
19
Martyr Stories
41
The Council of Cirta
51
Stories of the Martyrs
53
Historical Setting
55
Conclusion
76
Donatists in Controversy
77
Parmenian
96
Tyconius
112
Conclusion
128
Harassment and Persecution Again
130
Sources and Methodological Concerns
137
The Donatist World
141
The Messages of the Donatists
162
Donatist Interpretive Strategies
171

Gesta apud Zenophilum
78
De Singularitate Clericorum
82
Sermo in Natali Sanctorum Innocentium
86
Conclusion
89
New Times New Ecclesiologies Parmenian and Tyconius
93
A New Image of Donatism
175
Notes
181
Bibliography
218
Index
227
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Seite 9 - ... you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Seite 7 - Have you understood all this?" They said to him, "Yes." 52And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.

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