The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries) : Augustine of Hippo, his Contemporaries and Early Reception /
Pignot, Matthieu,
The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries) : Augustine of Hippo, his Contemporaries and Early Reception / Augustine of Hippo, his Contemporaries and Early Reception by Matthieu Pignot. - 1 online resource. - Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements ; 162 Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407367 . - Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements ; 162. Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407367. .
Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th-6th centuries) Matthieu Pignot explores how individuals became Christian in ancient North Africa. Before baptism, converts first became catechumens and spent a significant time of gradual integration into the community through rituals and teaching. This book provides the first historical study of this process in African sources, from Augustine of Hippo, to canon of councils, anonymous sermons and 6th-century letters. Pignot shows that practices varied more than is generally assumed and that catechumens, because of their liminal position, were a disputed and essential group in the development of Christian communities until the 6th century at least. This book demonstrates that the catechumenate is key to understanding the processes of Christianisation and conversion in the West.
9789004431904 9789004431898
10.1163/9789004431904 DOI
2020018169
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Catechumens--History--Africa--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Africa--Church history--To 1500.
BR195.C38
268.09609015
The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries) : Augustine of Hippo, his Contemporaries and Early Reception / Augustine of Hippo, his Contemporaries and Early Reception by Matthieu Pignot. - 1 online resource. - Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements ; 162 Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407367 . - Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements ; 162. Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407367. .
Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th-6th centuries) Matthieu Pignot explores how individuals became Christian in ancient North Africa. Before baptism, converts first became catechumens and spent a significant time of gradual integration into the community through rituals and teaching. This book provides the first historical study of this process in African sources, from Augustine of Hippo, to canon of councils, anonymous sermons and 6th-century letters. Pignot shows that practices varied more than is generally assumed and that catechumens, because of their liminal position, were a disputed and essential group in the development of Christian communities until the 6th century at least. This book demonstrates that the catechumenate is key to understanding the processes of Christianisation and conversion in the West.
9789004431904 9789004431898
10.1163/9789004431904 DOI
2020018169
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Catechumens--History--Africa--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Africa--Church history--To 1500.
BR195.C38
268.09609015