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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, since its first appearance in 1957, has established itself as the indispensable one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. This Revised Edition, published in 2005, builds on the unrivalled reputation of the previous editions. Revised and updated, it reflects changes in academic opinion and Church organization.

but from 405 Imperial government pressure was increasingly successful in reconciling Donatists to Catholicism, and by the time of the conference at Carthage in May 411, he accepted its legitimacy within certain limitations. In Confessions, 10. 29 (40) Augustine prayed ‘You have commanded continence. Grant what you command and command what you will’. In 405 this was quoted at Rome by a bishop condoning Christians of unregenerate sexual life; it caused outrage to *Pelagius, a respected spiritual director.
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