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Optatus, Bishop of Milevis in North Africa in the late-4th 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. Donatists argued that the ministry of the Catholic Church in North Africa was invalid because it had been contaminated early in the 4th century by a bishop who had betrayed the Gospel in time of persecution by the Roman state, and that after Constantine came to power the Catholic Church had called in the Roman state to persecute the Donatists. Optatus provided a dossier of Roman official documents to support his case that the Donatists were responsible for the schism, and that they too had collaborated in time of persecution and used violence in time of schism. He preceded Augustine in arguing that the unworthiness of the minister does not invalidate the sacrament and that the Church is not an exclusive sect; and he appealed, unsuccessfully, for negotiation and for the restoration of unity. This translation, the first since 1917, mades use of modern scholarship in its annotation and introduction.

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


About the Author :
Professor Mark J. Edwards is Tutor in Theology at Christ Church College, Oxford. His previous publications include Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (2009), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (2012) and Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity (2012)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780853237525
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Series Title: 27 Translated Texts for Historians
  • Weight: 330 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0853237522
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: Against the Donatists
  • Width: 147 mm


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