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In Augustine’s Cyprian Matthew Gaumer retraces how Augustine of Hippo devised the ultimate strategy to suppress Donatist Christianity, an indigenous form of the religion in ancient North Africa. Spanning nearly forty years, Augustine’s entire clerical career was spent combating the Donatists and seeking the dominance of the Catholic Church in North Africa. Through a variety of approaches Augustine evolved a method to successfully outlaw and deconstruct the Donatist Church’s organisation. This hinged on concerted preaching, tract writing, integrating Roman imperial authorities, and critically: by denying the Donatists’ exclusive claim to Cyprian of Carthage. Re-appropriation of Cyprian’s authority required Augustine and his allies to re-write history and pose positions contrary to Cyprian’s. In the end, Cyprian was the Donatists’ no longer.

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Central in this research proposal is the reception of Cyprian in Augustine and the Donatists in the Donatist Controversy and in Augustine and in a lesser degree by the Pelagians in the Pelagian Controversy. All parties in both controversies refer positively to Cyprian and consider him as a iudex, vested with auctoritas to be consulted in exemplary and doctrinal matters. The basic question of this research is: if/where/how is the Cyprian profile respectively in both camps different and/or similar and if/where/how Augustine's Cyprianic profile is identical or different in both controversies? Which elements play a role in these similarities in/or differences and can we observe an evolution in Augustine? What does a comparative analysis teach us about the concepts of auctoritas, novitas and traditio in Augustine and his opponents.