Catholic Church – Donatismus

Article. Tilley. Dilatory Donatists or Procrastinating Catholics: The Trial at the Conference of Carthage. 1991.

October 5, 2011 Article No Comments

Dilatory Donatists or Procrastinating Catholics: The Trial at the Conference of Carthage Author: Maureen A. Tilley Source: Church History, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 7-19 In the year 411 the bishops of Christian North Africa, Augustine among them, assembled in Carthage to debate whether Catholics or Donatists should…

Article. Marone. The use of the term “Catholic” in the Donatist controversy.

September 17, 2010 Article No Comments

THE USE OF THE TERM “CATHOLIC” IN THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY Paola Marone (Roma) A letter written by Ignatius to Christians in Smyrna around 110 is the earliest surviving witness to the use of the term “Catholic”. Sometime in the first decade of the second century, Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was…

Article. Beaver. The Donatist Circumcellions.

June 18, 2010 Academical Paper Article No Comments

THE DONATIST CIRCUMCELLIONS R. PIERCE BEAVER Cincinnati, Ohio Donatism was an exclusively African schism and for more than a century held the center of the stage in the Christian life of that land. It was born of local passions and quarrels, and had no success outside of Africa. It became…

Article. Eno. The significance of the Lists of Roman Bishops in the Anti-Donatist polemic.

June 18, 2010 Academical Paper Article No Comments

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LISTS OF ROMAN BISHOPS IN THE ANTI-DONATIST POLEMIC BY ROBERT B. ENO Since the Reformation, the early history of the Roman primacy has been a matter of emotional debate as well as of earnest study. Certain texts have been the object of intense scrutiny in the…