The donatist church in an apocalyptic age / Jesse A. Hoover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoover, Jesse A., author.

Series:

Oxford early Christian studies.

Oxford early Christian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Donatists.

Donatists--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This text explores how the Donatist church, a schismatic movement that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa interpreted the apocalypse during the first two centuries of its existence (c. 300-500).

Contents:

The apocalypse that never was : external impressions of Donatist eschatology

"The world has grown old" : the roots of Donatist eschatology

"Woe to you, world, for you are perishing!" Early Donatists at the end of the age

"God will come from the Afric" : mainstrean Donatism and remnamt theology

"As we have already seen in Africa" : the Tyconian alternative

"His name means 'Ever-increasing'" : Donatist eschatology after 411

Conclusion

Appendix A: Was Commodian a Donatist?

Appendix B: Were the Circumcellions a Millenarian Movement?

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-255941-9

0-19-186412-9

0-19-255940-0