The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age by Jesse A. Hoover (review)

• Autores: James T. Palmer
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 3, 2020, págs. 467-469
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In doing so, he lands yet another blow against the modeling of pre-modern apocalyptic movements that are rooted almost exclusively in the kind of millenarian movements sketched by Norman Cohn (e.g., Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith [New Haven, CT: In Chapter Two, Hoover sketches effectively some of the key intellectual influences on the Donatists: Tertullian, if indirectly, for his “Irenaean synthesis” of motifs and his literal millenarian model, early martyr stories such as that of Perpetua for establishing a sense of eschatological direction, Cyprian for developing the idea of the world growing old, and Lactantius—again indirectly—for preparing some of the groundwork for apocalyptic calculations. There was clearly a significant number who believed Christianity had been preached across the whole world—a condition for the end times—and that therefore references to a “falling away” in the Bible suggested the church had lost its way, leaving the Donatists in a “Remnant Ecclesiology.”