David E Wilhite: 3 books
The True Church
Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In this mini-monograph, David Wilhite offers a sustained analysis of the Donatist bishop of Carthage Parmenian's sermon on the Song of Songs as it survives in Optatus of Milevis' reading of it. The sermon itself invoked imagery from the Song of Songs to attribute theological meaning to the material...
The Gospel according to Heretics
Discovering Orthodoxy through Early Christological Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Since what Christian doctrine denies can be as important as what it affirms, it is important to understand teachings about Jesus that the early church rejected. Historians now acknowledge that proponents of alternative teachings were not so much malicious malcontents as they were misguided or even...
Ancient African Christianity
An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context....