Download or read book The Donatist Church written by W. H. C. Frend and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a development of a thesis written immediately before the Second World War, on 'The Social and Economic Background of Early Christianity in North Africa down to A.D. 430, with special reference to the Donatist Controversy'. The author had studied St. Augustine as his special subject in the Modern History School at Oxford, and had been impressed by the tenacity of the resistance of the Donatists to the Catholicism preached by Augustine. The Donatists defied him and survived to the end of Christianity in North Africa. This book examines why this is so.