Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Collective salvation" in English language version.
The Donatists were continuing the Cyprianic tradition of collective salvation rather than moving toward the Augustinian one of individual salvation.
As monks came to be clericalized and organized under the auspices of the church, at first in largely autonomous abbeys and later as orders, the eremitic (individual) type of monk tended to give way to the cenobitic (collective) type, and the religious action of monks tended to change from a focus on their individual salvation in relative isolation from others to a concern with the salvation of others. These 'others' could be specific, such as the community of monks in a monastery or monastic order, but 'others' could extend to all true Christians as defined by the church.