Donatist Martyr Stories: The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians) [Paperback]

Maureen A. Tilley (Translator)

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ISBN-10: 0853239312 | ISBN-13: 978-0853239314 | Publication Date: January 1, 1997

With this volume, Donatism regains its voice and its hagiography is available in English for the first time. The stories included provide a unique opportunity to glimpse the daily life of the church which for over a century was the faith of the majority of North African Christians. The narratives represent the lives and deaths of Christians who carried on pre-Constantine traditions from the fourth century to the advent of Islam.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin

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• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0853239312
• ISBN-13: 978-0853239314
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
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This review is from: Donatist Martyr Stories: The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians) (Paperback)

Paul did not travel into Egypt/Africa, it says in Acts, because a dream warned him away from Alexandria, the largest university in the Imperium. This is not the cause but a foreshadowing of the early African Church's different formulation of Christology and theology based on typology. Fact is, the Africans detested Rome, which maintained enormous Southern Med grain plantations to feed the Roman populace and armies. Donatism was a vigorous church arising around Rome's old adversary, Carthage, which required decades of polemics by Augustine and other theorists of the fourth century to quash. Indeed Donatism did not die entirely until the coming of Islam to Northern Africa. These martyrologies of early "confessors" of Christ have been translated by Dr Tilley and compiled for easy study. A necessary companion to her text on the Bible in North Africa, which is a new and necessary study of Donatism.