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The Donatists were a sect of Christianity who followed a belief that was considered heresy by the other churches of Catholicism. They were based in the Roman province of Africa during the the 4th and 5th centuries. The basic point of disagreement between Donatists and the rest of the early Christian church was about the those who renounced their faith during the persecution of Diocletian, a Roman Emperor in the early 300s.
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Which came first the Great Persecution of Diocletian or the Donatist Controversy?
The Great Persecution
Was Donatist Controversy a theological controversy for the Early Church?
Yes, it was a controversy between the Donatist sect in Tunisia and the Bishop of Rome in the early 4th century B.C. The Roman emperor Constantine the Great unsuccessfully tried to mediate it.
What was the Donatist controversy over?
The Christians who succumbed to the will of the state during the great persecution under diocletian
What eight letter word can you make from the following letters o j d s n t t b i i s a?
Donatist
What Christian sect denounced the unholy alliance between Catholic Chrisitans and the Roman state?
Donatist Christians did. They insisted that the church must employ only spiritual sanctions and not force.
What important change occurred in Libya and the Maghreb in the mid AD?
The armies of the Umayyad Caliphate conquered these territories and made Islam the dominant religion. Prior to this, most North Africans were Christians (either part of the Unified Church or from the Donatist Heresy) or indigenous polytheistic religions with a sprinkling of Jews.
What were the difficulties Saint Augustine faced?
Saint Augustine faced inner struggles with faith and moral dilemmas, particularly during his youth. He also faced external challenges from the Donatist controversy and the sack of Rome by the Visigoths. Additionally, Augustine grappled with the complexity of reconciling his previous beliefs with his newfound Christian faith.
What is the donatist controversy?
An event that took place in the 4/5th century in Rome. Some Christians bent to the will of Diocletian during the great persecution and the Donatists didn't think that those people's faith was valid any longer. There was controversy over who should be bishop of Carthage. So they sent representatives to Rome to argue their case but Constantine ruled that they were wrong. They still wouldn't give up so Constantine persecuted them, but that just made them martyrs.
What difficult choices did Saint Augustine have to make?
Saint Augustine faced difficult choices related to his faith, personal life, and career. He struggled with internal conflicts about his beliefs before converting to Christianity, giving up his former life of worldly pleasures. He also faced political challenges as bishop of Hippo, having to navigate complex relations with the Roman authorities and deal with the Donatist schism within the Church.
How did constatine help to promote the spread of Christianity?
Constantine the Great supported the Church financially, granted privileges to clergy (such as exemption from certain taxes), and promoted Christians to high office. He built Christian churches, the most important of which were: Old Saint Peter's in Rome (which was replaced by the current church during the Renaissance), the St John Lateran's Basilica (the city of Rome's first Cathedral and the original residence of the Popes), the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople and Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Constantine tried to mediate the bitter disputes between rival Christian doctrines. He convened the Council of Arles because the Donatist Christian sect appealed against the Pope's condemnation of them as schismatic (as braking away from Christianity). This council ruled against the Donatists who then became enemies of the Roman authorities and saw Constantine as the devil. An exasperated Constantine issued an edict which ordered the confiscation of all Donatist church property. Constantine also convened the First Council of Nicaea, which was the first ecumenical council (an ecclesiastical conference convened to discuss and vote on matters of Church doctrine and practice and which gathers representatives of the whole church and secures the approbation of the whole Church). It was the first effort to attain consensus through an assembly representing all of Christendom, which was divided into several different doctrines and sects. It was also an attempt to settle a dispute between mainstream Christianity, which upheld the doctrine of the trinity, and the Arian Christian sect which was non-Trinitarian and was opposed to the principle of the trinity. The council issued the Nicene Creed, which declared the trinity as the creed of all Christianity. However, this failed to end the dissent of the Arian Christians who continued to uphold their doctrine and their dissent. Despite his support of Christianity, Constantine did not abandon Roman religion
What dilemmas may some Christians face?
A:Christians face the same dilemmas as do other people, but sometimes additional dilemmas because of what they believe. On this, different Christians believe different things at different times. Saint Augustine taught that it was never permissible to tell a lie, even to avoid a greater evil such as rape or murder. A dilemma that he subsequently faced was that he wanted to lie in order to further the Catholic Church's interests, and so had to develop a line of theological reasoning that avoided negating his teaching, while allowing him the freedom to further the Catholic Church's interests.Whether the Catholic Church was justified in using coercion was another question that deeply concerned Augustine. In an early,undated letter to a Donatist churchman he wrote: “I do not intend that anyone should be forced into the Catholic communion against his will. On the contrary it is my aim that the truth may be revealed to all who are in error and that . . . with the help of God, it may be made manifest so as to induce all to follow and embrace it of their own accord.” Augustine eventually reversed his position and decided to endorse coercion, saying in a letter to the Donatist bishop Parminian that the emperors and political authorities had the God-given right and duty to crush the sacrilege and schism of the Donatists, since they were as obligated to repress a false and evil religion as to prevent the crime of pagan idolatry. He was always able to resolve dilemmas like this by explaining them as special cases.Similar, but more practical dilemmas for modern Christians may relate to marriage ans sexual practice. A Christian may be ideologically opposed to abortion, but then placed in the position where an abortion becomes a virtual necessity. The dilemma is whether to proceed with an abortion or hold firm to one's previous beliefs, in the face of grave danger to the mother or in spite of financial ruin. A Catholic may face the dilemma of whether to follow Catholic teaching to the letter or use birth control.
What were 3 abuses of the Catholic Church as identified by Martin Luther in his 95 theses?
Well, to start off with, there is no "Roman Catholic Church." It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. . Secondly, the Catholic Church is just about twenty centuries old at this point, and in all those centuries, as the Catholic Church is composed entirely of sinners, saving Our Blessed Lord, and His Mother, there have been many abuses over the centuries, and they always seem to lead to criticisms, which in, and of, itself is a sin as bad as the abuses, in many cases. . Therefore to give an adequate answer to your question, you are going to have to narrow it down to a particular century or part of a century, and perhaps a continent, so as to receive a meaningful answer. I get the feeling that you are not looking for a complete explanation of the Donatist heresy in the early fourth century, but you might be. There are whole volumes written about each "abuse" and each "criticism", so you are going to have to be a whole lot more precise with your question.
