Optatus: Against the Donatists
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: Against the Donatists
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: Against the Donatists

Optatus: Against the Donatists

by Liverpool University Press
Optatus: Against the Donatists

Optatus: Against the Donatists

by Liverpool University Press

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780853237525
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1998
Series: Translated Texts for Historians LUP , #27
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Mark Edwards is University Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chronology
Introduction
Optatus: Against the Donatists
The Optatan Appendix
App. 1 Proeeedings before Zenophilus
App. 2 Trial of Bishop Felix
App. 3 Constantine to Aelafius
App. 4 The Council of Arles
App. 5 Constantine to the catholic bishops
App. 6 Constantine to the Donatist bishops
App. 7 Constantine to Celsus
App. 8 The prefects to Celsus
App. 9 Constantine to the catholics
App. 10 Constantine to the catholic bishops of Numidia
Bibliography
Glossary and Index
App. 1 The Bishops of Rome
App. 2 The Italian bishoprics
Maps at end of volume
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