The Extinction of the Christian Churches in North AfricaClay, 1898 - 263 من الصفحات |
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Adrumetum African Christianity African Church amongst Arian attack authority barbarian barbarism Bello Vand Berber Bishop of Carthage bishops Boissier Boniface Byzacene Caesariensis canons Catholicism Catholics caused century Church of Africa Church of Carthage civilization clergy conquered conquerors conquest consecrated Constantinople Council of Carthage Council of Hippo Cyprian danger death declared decree dioceses districts Donatism Donatists doubt ecclesiastical edict Emperor Empire episcopate Eugenius exile faith favour forced frontier Fulgentius Gaiseric Gildo Gregory Gunthamund Hefele heresy heretics Hilderic Hippo Hunneric Ibn Khaldoun Imperial inhabitants invaders Justinian king Latrie Manichaeism Mauritania Mohammedan monasteries monks Monothelites Moorish Moors Morcelli Numidia once oppressed orthodox peace persecution political Pope population prelate priests Primate Proconsularis Procop Procopius Prosper Tyro Province ravaged reign religious resistance restored Roman Rome Saracens schism schismatics seemed shewed soon St Augustine suffered synod terrible Theophanes Thrasamund tribes Tripoli utmost Vandals Victor Vit Victor Vitensis Vita whole
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الصفحة 27 - Towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, these lands were incorporated in the Roman empire.
الصفحة 232 - ... and the monkish chroniclers tell us that after their arrival, churches were erected in almost every village, and monasteries were seen to arise in the towns and cities designed in the new style of architecture. From Doomsday Book we learn that the number of churches had increased to such an extent, that at the time of its compilation there were no less than seventeen hundred in existence.
الصفحة 2 - Tertullian was the first Latin writer, at least the first who commanded the public ear ; and there is strong ground for supposing that, since Tertullian quotes the sacred writings perpetually and copiously, the earliest of those many 1 Vol. np 343 (Eng. Trans.). 2 Latin Christianity, i. 35. Latin versions noticed by Augustine and on which Jerome grounded his Vulgate were African.
الصفحة 2 - In the development of Christianity Africa plays the very first part ; if it arose in Syria, it was in and through Africa that it became the religion for the world. As the translation of the sacred books from the Hebrew language into the Greek, and that into the popular language of the most considerable Jewish community out of Judaea, gave to Judaism its position in the world, so in a similar way for the...
الصفحة 22 - Between the capital of the Empire and the capital of the Province, there was continual communication.
الصفحة 61 - Circumcelliones, and roundly asserts that "perhaps the cruelties of the barbarians would be light in comparison." He declares that these fanatics were pledged to subvert the social order of the province, that they repudiated just debts and released legal slaves. Their conduct deprived them of all claim to the consideration due to those who had honestly made a mistake. If they 1 "plures in ejus corpora cicatrices quam membra numerantur.
الصفحة 27 - The slow progress of the gospel in the cold climate of Gaul was extremely different from the eagerness with which it seems to have been received on the burning sands of Africa.
الصفحة 103 - ... mercy of barbarian conquerors and the chances of war are at best cruel, and the African Church had to pass through a very fiery trial before it reached the comparative quiet that marked the close of Gaiseric's reign. The ravages of the invasion and the special damage done to the churches and clergy have already been described, and there is no need to repeat the catalogue of horrors. There can be no doubt that until peace was declared the ecclesiastical organization of the distracted province...
الصفحة 174 - Although Africa had already received its deathblow, it must not be supposed that its end came yet. It had sustained irreparable injuries and it was subject to a steady drain upon its strength, but despite all the Province for more than a century seemed to recover its old glories and to be...
الصفحة 88 - ... it impracticable to summon a general synod in Africa". Such is the picture drawn by the historians of the ravages of the Vandal invaders. But it is not clear that some of the colours are not unduly heightened by religious and national resentment. No Vandal writer ever arose to give a second account of the war, and there is much in the statements of Victor and Possidius to shew the need of caution in accepting their facts as literally true.