TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaumer,Matthew Alan
TI  - Augustine's Cyprian: authority in Roman Africa 
T2  - Brill's series in church history and religious culture
SN  - 9789004312630 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BR65.A9 G33 2016
U1  - 270.2 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Augustine,
KW  - Cyprian,
KW  - Church
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Donatists
KW  - Authority
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - fast
KW  - Early church
KW  - Primitive and early church
KW  - Africa, North
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-365) and index; Augustine's early years as a church leader and initial reactions to Donatist Christianity -- Augustine's first years of ministry, the 390s -- The need for an auctoritas: why did Augustine need Cyprian? -- The election of Primian and its polemical consequences, mid 390s -- The maturation of the anti-Donatist campaign -- De baptismo and the controversy's escalation, 400-01 -- The process of appropriation -- Sustaining appropriation -- Augustine's Cyprian in the Pelagian controversy -- The Cyprian-appropriation in the anti-Pelagian campaigns -- General conclusions
N2  - Augustine's Cyprian' retraces the demise of Donatist Christianity in ancient North Africa. Set during the Roman Empire's collapse, this work accounts how Augustine of Hippo initiated one of the most prolific re-appropriations of authority in ancient Christianity: Cyprian of Carthage
ER  -