Donatism was an indirect outcome of Diocletian's persecutions. The governor of Africa had been lenient towards the large Christian minority under his rule during the persecutions. He was satisfied when Christians handed over their Scriptures as a token repudiation of their faith. Some Christians acceded to this convenient action. When the persecutions came to an end, however, they were branded traditores, "those who handed (the holy things) over" by the zealous, mostly from the poorer classes.[2]
Like the Novatianist schism of the previous century,[3] the Donatists were rigorists, holding that the church must be a church of "saints," not "sinners," and that sacraments, such as baptism, administered by traditores were invalid. Probably in 311,[citation needed] a new bishop of Carthage, Caecilian, was consecrated by someone who had allegedly been a traditor, Felix of Aptungi; his opponents consecrated a short-lived rival, who was succeeded by Donatus, after whom the schism was named.
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From the writing of the Donatists - proto-protestants, who refused to let into communion people who have given the scriptures to be burned by the pagan persecutors of the pre-constantine era.:
"Some fell from faith at the critical moment by handing over to unbeliev-
ers the scriptures of the Lord and the divine testaments so they could be
burned in unholy fires. But how many more in preserving them bravely
resisted by freely shedding their blood for them! When the devil had been
completely defeated and ruined and all the martyrs were filled with God’s
presence, bearing the palm of victory over suffering, they sealed with
their own blood the verdict against the traitors and their associates, reject-
ing them from communion of the Church. For it was not right that there
should be martyrs and traitors in the Church of God at the same time."
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Acts of the Abitinian Martyrs in TILLEY
Only one day after the Tunisian museum attack.....
http://news.yahoo.com/afghanistan-buries-woman-beaten-death-mob-070621856.html
Only one day after the Tunisian museum attack.....
http://news.yahoo.com/afghanistan-buries-woman-beaten-death-mob-070621856.html
Afghanistan buries woman beaten to death by mob
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan women's rights activists dressed head-to-toe in black broke with tradition Sunday to carry the coffin of a woman who was beaten to death by a mob in the capital Kabul over allegations she had burned a Quran.
The mob of men beat 27-year-old Farkhunda before throwing her body off a roof, running over it with a car, setting it on fire and throwing it into a river near a well-known mosque.
The attack was apparently sparked by allegations that Farkhunda, who like many Afghans has just one name, had set fire to a Quran. But Afghanistan's most senior detective said no evidence had been found to support those claims.
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Part of the complexity of demonstrating the manner in whichthe Circumcelliones were in fact part and parcel of the realization ofDonatist political theology is found in the fact that the Numidian group
(radical Donatists)has always been stigmatized as excessively fanatical barbarian “dis-ruptors” hell-bent on eradicating any semblance of Roman “civilization.”
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WHO ELSE STILL USES THE TERM "ROMANS" FOR THEIR POLITICAL AND ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE?:
Tunisia's Bardo museum: treasure hoard that was to spearhead tourism drive
Some buildings on the site date back to the 14th century, while objects in the museum reflect the colourful and complex history of Tunis
Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum is a top attraction for tourists, a sprawling complex that houses a world-famous collection of Roman mosaics and celebrates all the country’s rich, diverse history. The same fame and international importance that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year may also have drawn the gunmen who turned it into a slaughterhouse on Wednesday.
’Up until now, 80% of our market targeted seaside tourism,” tourism minister Selma Elluni Rekik told the Ansa news agency on Tuesday. “We now want to focus also on cultural tourism, valorising our archaeological sites like Carthage, El Jam and the Bardo National Museum, where the richest collection of Roman mosaics in the world is kept.”
Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum is a top attraction for tourists, a sprawling complex that houses a world-famous collection of Roman mosaics and celebrates all the country’s rich, diverse history. The same fame and international importance that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year may also have drawn the gunmen who turned it into a slaughterhouse on Wednesday.
’Up until now, 80% of our market targeted seaside tourism,” tourism minister Selma Elluni Rekik told the Ansa news agency on Tuesday. “We now want to focus also on cultural tourism, valorising our archaeological sites like Carthage, El Jam and the Bardo National Museum, where the richest collection of Roman mosaics in the world is kept.”
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"In the Donatist worldview, with its deeply eschatological sense
of separation from the world, of civitas Dei (the Church) pitted against the civitas Diaboli (the world and false Christians), it is no surprise that the walls of the garden of salvation (Cant. 4:12) would require brave Christians willing for their defense against the citizens of the civitas Diaboli wishing to overtake it.Circumcelliones were reported to have actively prepared for martyrdom, going so far as to create provocations with non-Donatist Christians so as to be murdered............".............
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"What Mohammed Ibn 'Abdul-Wahab insisted upon -- and what is followers today insist upon -- is that men with the sword judge on behalf of God here on earth, and on all matters, small and big. This is where the Saudi Kingdom and ISIS fit. They are outside the boundaries of mainstream Islam, in that they refuse to even concede that they speak as representatives of a sect. Wahhabis (of all stripes) protest to even the name of Wahhabis: we are only Muslims, they assert; i.e. they alone are Muslim and everyone else is a kafir [unbeliever] who should be fought as ancient pagans at the time of Mohammad. Wahhabis claim that they represent the 'true Islam' when the strength of Islam throughout the ages is that there is no such thing as 'the true Islam.'"...........
Just to be clear, this joint claim derives from them both sharing the same doctrinal foundation: ʿAbd al-Wahhab's key text, The Book of Monotheism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/obama-isis-not-islamic_b_5843830.html
PREPARED FOR MARTYRDOM......AGAINST THE ROMANS
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For this reason Augustine noted that they lived as robbers, died as Circumcelliones, and were honored as martyrs. The emphasis on martyrdom and the cult of the martyr in Cir-cumcellion theology goes to show more than just the polemicized aspects that Augustine spun in order to discredit them. For these agrestes , Donatism lent Berber-Punic descendents a means of coping with their status of subjugation at the hands of the landed Roman elite........
[the parallel here is clear - Islamic terrorism is a response to colonialism - - - -]
[the parallel here is clear - Islamic terrorism is a response to colonialism - - - -]
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Though this example of collegiality has been studied
before for the purposes of understanding the evolution of bishops in
early church history, it is my opinion that the collegiality of North
Africans bishops, along with theseniores laici, is best understood
within the framework of the Donatist concept of an impending eschatology. The end of days was soon to come, God had given humanity the ark of salvation in preparation for the eschaton and the leaders and ministers of the ark, the Church, were to act as if the eschaton was already upon them. This is an example of bringing North African belief into their real world and everyday life, hence creating a political theology.
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http://concordiatheology.org/2014/10/eschatology-and-the-islamic-state/
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http://concordiatheology.org/2014/10/eschatology-and-the-islamic-state/
- Why eschatology? Because beliefs about the end times are often central to the motives of Islamic groups. This is certainly the case with ISIS. Dr. Furnish illustrated eschatology of ISIS with Dabiq,their English-language magazine. The name itself refers to a Syrian town where, according to a hadith (a saying by the Prophet Muhammad), a great battle will be fought, ushering in the last times. And there is more than the name. The magazine makes it clear that ISIS believes it is engaging in an end-times struggle against forces of unbelief, injustice, and evil—including Christianity. They are, in the words of Dr. Furnish’s title, “fighting for the end of the [Christian] world.”
In particular, as the Atlantic piece brings out, ISIS has an apocalyptic vision, and crucially, its adherents fervently believe in an imminent eschatology, culminating in a climactic battle against the “Romans” on the Plains of Dabiq in Syria. (Note that the latest ISIS snuff film documenting the beheading of the innocent Copts included a warning that they were coming to Rome.)
http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=9160
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