The Power of Baptism: Augustine’s Pro-Nicene Response to the Donatists
In Tract. eu. Io. 5, Augustine preaches his anti-Donatist theology of baptism by emphasizing that Christ always retains the potestas of baptism. By focusing on the term potestas to argue that Christ, not the bishop, is the primary agent in baptism, Augustine subverts the traditional North African th...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2014
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 519-540 |
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