The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th–6th Centuries) : Augustine of Hippo, His Contemporaries and Early Reception. By Matthieu Pignot
This book is a painstaking and thorough examination of the catechumenate in North Africa from the fourth to the sixth centuries ce, of the rites first by which its members were incorporated into this status, and then of the rites by which they prepared as competentes for baptism; but Matthieu Pignot...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 1001-1003 |
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| Summary: | This book is a painstaking and thorough examination of the catechumenate in North Africa from the fourth to the sixth centuries ce, of the rites first by which its members were incorporated into this status, and then of the rites by which they prepared as competentes for baptism; but Matthieu Pignot also studies the intermediate place which catechumens thereby held in the life of the churches. As he observes in the introduction, the catechumenate ‘has not been considered as an alternative and peculiar way of being Christian which shaped the process of Christianisation’ (p. 18), and which in the North African context was repeatedly caught up in polemical disputes between rival versions of Christianity (pp. 21 and 89). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab132 |