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Donatists Christian group in North Africa who broke with Catholicism (312). [Christian Hist.: EB, III: 618] See : Apostasy How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Theological discussion of the sacraments took place primarily in the context of specific issues, for example, when Augustine and the Donatists contended over the validity of sacraments administered by sinful ministers. These last had three targets: Manichaeans; Donatists (an African sect with extreme views on priestly "purity", whose militant atrocities account for his severe penalties against them); Pelagius (dubbed by Jerome "a Scottish porridge-eater") who fastened on the sentence "Give what you command and command what you wish" (Confessions 16. According to Fedden, the idea that suicide is both a sin and a crime appears late in the ancient world, taking its impetus from Augustine's polemics against the "suicidal mania" of the Donatists in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE (Fedden: 133-34). |
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