The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

• In March 297, Diocletian issued a decree against the Manichaeans (a Gnostic religion that combined Zoroastrian and Christia ...

Lecture 13: Imperial Politics and Religion “emperors,” but Constantine worked ruthlessly to eliminate rivals and make himself so ...

o The church could legally inherit and bequeath property. o Constantine began the practice of donating pagan temples as Christia ...

Lecture 13: Imperial Politics and Religion o Symbolically, Constantinople was a New Rome that was also a Christian Rome from the ...

Constantine and the Established Church Lecture 14 I n the previous lecture, we traced the steps by which the Roman Empire turned ...

Lecture 14: Constantine and the Established Church o With respect to Jews, the policy of earlier emperors had been to allow free ...

individuals kept older ideals and practices alive. Rural areas were particularly slow to convert to Christianity, but intellectu ...

Lecture 14: Constantine and the Established Church o Trained in rhetoric and philosophy, Julian was lifted from his life as a st ...

o Despite such repressive measures against paganism, Theodosius continued to maintain the right of Jews to assemble for worship. ...

Lecture 14: Constantine and the Established Church o Above all, the opportunity was opened to expand the religion into a genuine ...

o Already in the 4th century, then, the lines of what would be called “caesaropapism”—the merging of imperial and religious powe ...

Lecture 14: Constantine and the Established Church a distinctively Christian culture as an instrument of civilization among barb ...

The Extension of Christian Culture Lecture 15 A s we have seen, the effects of being established as the official religion of the ...

Lecture 15: The Extension of Christian Culture o The kingdom of Armenia, a Roman client state adjacent to Asia Minor, made Chris ...

villages and remote rural areas maintained traditional ways for centuries after officially being declared Christian. o It was of ...

Lecture 15: The Extension of Christian Culture o Christian liturgy in large spaces began to take on the characteristics of such ...

practice are clear, and the practice worried such teachers as Saint Augustine. o Just as pilgrimages were made in Greco-Roman re ...

Lecture 15: The Extension of Christian Culture o The sacrament of repentance (or “penance”) sanctified the turn from sin during ...

militant on earth—militant because it still needed to do battle with sin and the forces of darkness—with the church triumphant i ...

Lecture 15: The Extension of Christian Culture Comment on this proposition: With establishment as the imperial religion, Christ ...