Early Christianity in North Africa / Franȯis Decret ; translated by Edward Smither.
By: Decret, Franȯis.
Contributor(s): Smither, Edward.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : James Clarke & Co. 2011Description: xii, 228 p. : maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780227173565 (pbk); 0227173562 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Christianisme en Afrique du Nord ancienne. English Subject(s): Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230 | Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage | Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 | Kirchengeschichte 180-705 | Christianity -- Africa, North | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Africa, North -- Church history | Africa, North -- History -- To 647 | NordafrikaDDC classification: 276.1/01 Other classification: BO 2340 | ID 1265 Translation of : Le christianisme en Afrique du Nord ancienne.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-222) and index.
Geographical and historical background -- Origins of the African church -- Tertullian : the ""master"" -- Mid-third-century persecution and crisis in Africa -- Cyprian, the ""pope"" of Carthage -- Organization and life of the third-century African churches -- The Donatist schism and the division of African Christianity -- The diverse African religious landscape in late antiquity -- Augustine of Hippo and the glory of the ""great church"" -- The final stages of the African church : from the Vandal invasion to the Arab Maghreb.
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