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.
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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.
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PrefaceChronologyIntroductionOptatus: Against the DonatistsThe Optatan AppendixApp. 1 Proeeedings before ZenophilusApp. 2 Trial of Bishop FelixApp. 3 Constantine to AelafiusApp. 4 The Council of ArlesApp. 5 Constantine to the catholic bishopsApp. 6 Constantine to the Donatist bishopsApp. 7 Constantine to CelsusApp. 8 The prefects to CelsusApp. 9 Constantine to the catholicsApp. 10 Constantine to the catholic bishops of NumidiaBibliographyGlossary and IndexApp. 1 The Bishops of RomeApp. 2 The Italian bishopricsMaps at end of volume
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300–800 AD is the time of late antiquity and the early middle ages: the transformation of the classical world, the beginnings of Europe and of Islam, and the evolution of Byzantium.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780853237525
Publisert
1997-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Liverpool University Press
Vekt
330 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Aldersnivå
00, UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

Professor Mark J. Edwards is Tutor in Theology at Christ Church College, Oxford. His previous publications include Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (2009), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (2012) and Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity (2012)