Conference. Matthew Alan Gaumer. Dealing with the Donatist Church: Augustine of Hippo’s nuanced claim to the authority of Cyprian of Carthage.

The last years and dying days of Augustine are ones that are well recalled by historians and theologians. Perhaps the most central recounting is Peter Brown‟s still-magisterial biography of the Bishop of Hippo wherein he vivified the near-certain anxiety Augustine likely felt not only in terms of the lingering threat…