Kirkumukeriones - Kirkumukeriones

...Those who supported the latter group installed Donatus in place of Majorinus, who died shortly after, and, raising the authority of Cyprian, a martyr of Carthage, declared the sacraments performed by clergy who had refused to confess their faith during persecution to be invalid. They also opposed the collusion between church and state, and involved non-Romanized non-settlers (peasants and monks called circumcelliones) in riots. Fanaticism that glorified martyrdom and demanded social change based on apocalyptic ideas had been prevalent in Asia Minor and Egypt since ancient times (such as the Montanists and Novatians), and the Donatists are considered to be part of that group....

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…後者を支持する人々は，まもなく死んだマヨリヌスのあとにドナトゥスを立てるとともに，カルタゴの殉教者キプリアヌスの権威をかかげ，迫害の際に信仰告白をこばんだ聖職者の執行するサクラメントは無効であると宣言した。さらに教会と国家の癒着に反対し，非ローマ化された非定住民(キルクムケリオネスcircumcellionesと呼ばれる農民と修道士たち)を巻き込んで暴動を起こした。殉教を賛美し，終末思想にもとづいて社会変革を要求する熱狂主義は，古くから小アジアとエジプトに頻発したが(モンタヌス派やノウァティアヌス派など)，ドナトゥス派もその線上にあるものとみられる。…

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