Donatism

A fourth century rebellion against the encroachments of Christian sacralism, or Constantinianism with an effort to preserve membership to the Church based on "personal faith" rather than an all-inclusive participation through the dictums of a state.1

 

Reference:

1 Leonard Verduin, The Reformers and Their Stepchildren (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1964), 33.

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