Decret, Francois, <br/><br/>
Early Christianity in North Africa /  [print] 
Francois Decret ; translated by Edward Smither. 
 - Eugene, Or. :  Cascade Books,  (c)2009. 
 - xii, 228 pages :  maps ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Translation of: Le christianisme en Afrique du Nord ancienne. 
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<br/><br/> Geographical and historical background --  Origins of the African church --  Tertullian : the "master" --  Mid-third-century persecution and crisis in Africa --  Cyprian, the "pope" of Carthage --  Organization and life of the third-century African churches --  The Donatist schism and the division of African Christianity --  The diverse African religious landscape in late antiquity --  Augustine of Hippo and the glory of the "great church" --  The final stages of the African church : from the Vandal invasion to the Arab Maghreb. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781556356926 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage. <br/>Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christianity--Africa, North.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR190.D298.E275 2009 BR190