The Donatist Church A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa

E-285. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford at The Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK. 1952. Xviii, 361 pgs. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spined. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn, stain present to the rear board, spine label present). No ownership marks present. Text has notes and marks present to the margins of the text. Binding tight and solid. For nearly 600 years North Africa had a vibrant, thriving church, until it was swept away by Islam. But at about that time of Constantine's putative conversion, the church split into two branches. The Catholic and the Donatist. Frend's book is a look at how that schism began, its course, and the final collapse of Donatism. Though often referred to as heresy, it was actually a schism. The Donatist were, at least most of them, orthodox. "Donatism and Catholicism represented opposite tendencies in Christian thought. The Churches were in fact two societies, differing fundamentally in outlook on both religious and social questions." E-285; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .