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Donatist
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Don·a·tist  (dn-tst, dn-)
n.
A member of a rigoristic, schismatic Christian sect, strongly opposed by Saint Augustine, that arose in North Africa in the fourth century a.d. and believed in sanctity as requisite for church membership and administration of all sacraments.
[Medieval Latin Donatista, after Donatus, fourth-century a.d. ecclesiastic and rival claimant of the bishopric of Carthage.]
Dona·tism n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Donatist - an adherent of Donatism
adherent, disciple - someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
Adj.1.Donatist - of or relating to Donatism


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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.
Bread & wine: what's essential to the Eucharist? by Osborne, Kenan B. / Commonweal
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.
St Augustine by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
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).
"Saving Judas"--a social scientific approach to Judas's suicide in ... by Reed, David A. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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