Caecilian
Definition
A rigorist North African schism beginning over the consecration of Caecilian of Carthage; it treated the Church as a holy society rather than a sanctuary for sinners, rebaptized converts, and held that sacramental efficacy depends on the minister’s holiness.
Episodes
- 020 — History of the Christian Church — General
- 023 — History of the Christian Church — Topic 3
- 030 — History of the Christian Church — Topic 10
Related Concepts
Biblical References
- Matthew 16:18 — *And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. *
- Malachi 4:2 — *But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall. *
- Revelation 1:10 — *I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, *
- Proverbs 8:22 (LXX) — The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.
- John 1:14 — *Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. *
- John 3:16 — *For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. *