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On the Unity of the Church (Cyprian)

Also known as De unitate ecclesiae

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Cyprian's treatise (251) during the Novatianist schism; 'he cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother'.

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Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.

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ecclesiology · latin · 3rd-century

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