Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
5 - Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
This chapter argues that in order to properly appreciate the complexities of Donatist eschatology, we must situate it within its fourth- and fifth-century context. When we do so, we find that Donatist apocalypticism is far more contiguous with the eschatological expectations of the Christian communities that ringed the western Mediterranean in late antiquity than previously expected, yet also capable of significant innovation in how such apocalyptic tropes were deployed.
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