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Document Details : Title: Montenses Subtitle: The Donatists' Ecclesiological Reflection about Habacuc's Prophecy Author(s): DALVIT, Matteo Journal: Augustiniana Volume: 63 Issue: 1-4 Date: 2013 Pages: 173-188 DOI: 10.2143/AUG.63.1.3013251 Abstract : No scholar seems to have been really interested in concentrating attention on the Donatist community of Rome, the so-called 'montenses'. To be more precise there are no studies specifically dedicated to this theme, maybe because of an almost total lack of testimonies about it. In this article I am trying to demonstrate that Donatists would have re-read the prophecy in Hab 3, 3 to base their ecclesiology on the identification of Donatus the Great (as known as Donatus from Casae Nigrae or Donatus of Carthage) with the image of the Saint (Sanctus) coming from the Shady Mount (mons umbrosus) and so this peculiar interpretation of Habacuc’s prophecy would be at the origin of the name 'montenses'. |
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