Description
Book SynopsisA thorough and scholarly study of the early history of the Christian Church in North Africa, newly translated into English.
Trade Review'...one could offer this book to undergraduates as a helpful introduction to a world with which they may be totally unfamiliar. Its compendious vision, its readability, make it excellent in this regard...' Jonathan Zecher, Reviews in Religion and Theology, volume 20, Issue 1, 2013
Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface; Preface to the English Translation; 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; Maps; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.
