"If Donatism is in direct continuity with pre-Constantinian Christianity, it should not imagine that it represents the only church. The church of Christ has the promise of universality, while the Donatist church has not crossed the ethnic and territorial boundaries of Africa. Furthermore, after a heroic period of confessions and martyrdom, the Donatist church, especially during the period of the Moorish uprisings, came to contract the same disfiguring blemishes that it discovers in the official community."
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Donatism was a schism from the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Carthage from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and their prayers and sacraments to be valid.
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