| The Donatist controversy was known to me for some years, as I have instanced above. |
| The notion that clergy could be holy was rejected with the settlement of the Donatist controversy. |
| The Donatist controversy sprang out of the Diocletian persecution in the beginning of the century. |
| The donatist heresy claimed that sacraments were impaired if the person performing them was heretical or unorthodox. |
| The Donatist treatises have met with little attention from individual editors. |
| John's mood is something we find more with the Montanist and Donatist movements than with the church universal, guided by the bishops. |
