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    The True Church: Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs
    The True Church: Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs
    The True Church: Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs
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    The True Church: Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs

    By David E. Wilhite

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    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 objects.  Both Parmenian and Optat

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherICCS Press
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781624280108
    The True Church: Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs
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    David E. Wilhite

    David E. Wilhite (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is associate professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. He is the author of Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian's Context and Identities and coauthor of The Church: A Guide for the Perplexed. He is the coeditor of Tertullian and Paul and The Apostolic Fathers and Paul in the Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate series.

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