Donatist

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• In the last chapter of his last explicitly anti-Manichean work, Augustine was already setting his sights on the Donatists, for there he viewed the Church on earth as made up of a mixture of a few saints and a multitude of sinners.

  Academic text (1990)

• Indeed, it was perhaps too easy for him to recast his arguments against the Manicheans' cosmological dualism into similar ones against the Donatists' moral elitism.

  Academic text (1990)

• The key issue between Donatist and Catholic was separation:

  Academic text (1990)

• His description of the heretics seems to apply to the Donatists, who continued to be a problem throughout his life.

  Academic text (2002)

• To Augustine, these claims must have looked very similar to those of the Donatists.

  Academic text (1990)

• Against this Donatist perversity, Augustine held that God and Christ worked the effects of the sacraments.

  Academic text (1990)

• As he saw it, the Donatists' persistence in error was yet another example of the pervasiveness of sin.

  Academic text (1990)

• Even more recently, Peter Iver Kaufman has shown the importance of the Donatist controversy in giving shape to Augustine's attitudes toward sin.

  Academic text (1990)

• Since no individual could escape sin entirely for him, the strict Donatist dichotomy between saints and sinners on earth was without theological foundation.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Donatist and Pelagian controversies became, for Augustine, occasions to render explicit the implicit claims of revelation.

  Academic text (2010)

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