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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Summary of Events; Map of Roman Africa; Key to Cities and Provinces in the Map; Introduction; Practice and Theology; A Theological School; A Practical Theology of the Church; Correlation with Practice; Archeological and Literary Evidence; Second and Third Centuries; Fourth and Fifth Centuries; The Vandal Era; The Byzantine Period; The Structure of This Book; 1. Christianity in North Africa to Diocletian; Background; Geographical Spread; Persecution; 180-249 c.e.; Persecution under Decius, 250/251 c.e.

The Orders; Implementation of the Orders; The Victims; Persecution under Gallus; Persecution under Valerian and Gallienus, 257-260 c.e.; Dionysius of Alexandria; Cyprian; Further Implementation; Disciplinary and Doctrinal Disputes; Christian Literature; 2. The Christian Imperial Period: Diocletian to the Vandals; From Diocletian to Constantine; Diocletian's Reforms; The Persecution of Christians; Constantine and His Sons; The Liberation of Christianity; Religious Non-Conformists; Manichees; Novatianists; Tertullianists; Donatists; Julian to the Vandals; Stability Once More.

Destabilization and SuppressionRenewed Conflict between Caecilianists and Donatists; The Pelagian Controversy; Arians and Vandals; 3. Fifth-Century Conflicts: Vandal Arians and African Nicenes; The Vandal Conquest of Roman Africa; The Vandal Kingdom in Africa; The Religious Conflict; Vandal Arianism; Repression of Nicene Christianity; The Vandal Imprint; Byzantine Africa; Justinian's Conquest; Byzantine Orthodoxy; African Resistance to Justinian; Donatism; The Final Debate; Arab Africa; 4. Survey of the Archeological Evidence for Christian Practice; History and Overview of the Evidence.

Types of Ecclesial StructuresDating the Remains; Characteristics of African Basilicas; Liturgical Furniture (Altars, Screens, and Pulpits); Baptismal Architecture; Multiple Baptisteries in a Single Urban Area; Baptistery Placement and Construction; Font Shapes, Sizes, and Depths; Mosaic Decoration of Baptisteries and Fonts; Additional Structures and Apparatus; Archeological Evidence Pertaining to the Cult of Saints; Burial ad Sanctos; Architectural Evidence for Christian Burial; Cemeteries and Cemetery Churches; Funerary Banquet or Offering Tables (Mensae); Mosaic Tomb Covers.

Ecclesial Structures in Selected CitiesBasilica of Castellum Tingitanum (Chlef or Orléansville); The Churches of Carthage; The Caecilianist Cathedral of Carthage; Basilica Maiorum; Memoria Cypriani (Basilica of the Mappalia); The Churches of Sufetula; The Church of Bellator; The Chapel of Jucundus; The Basilica of Vitalis; The Church of Servus; The Basilica (or Martyrium) of Saints Sylvanius and Fortunatus; The Basilica of Saints Gervasius, Protasius, and Tryphon; Other Basilicas; The Chapel of Bishop Honorius (in the Region of Sufetula); The Ecclesial Complex at Hippo Regius.

The Baptistery at Hippo Regius.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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