A.D. 381
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A.D. 381

Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State

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A.D. 381

Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State

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"A chronicle of one significant year in Christian history." — Kirkus Reviews In A.D. 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the nature of God; all other interpretations were now declared heretical. It was the first time in a thousand years of Greco-Roman civilization free thought was unambiguously suppressed. Why has Theodosius's revolution been airbrushed from the historical record? In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Charles Freeman argues that Theodosius's edict and the subsequent suppression of paganism not only brought an end to the diversity of religious and philosophical beliefs throughout the empire, but created numerous theological problems for the Church, which have remained unsolved. The year A.D. 381, as Freeman puts it, was "a turning point which time forgot." "A well-argued and -documented study of the rise of the monotheistic state in the late Roman Empire and its aftereffects." — Library Journal

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Publisher
ABRAMS Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781590205228
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
History of Christianity

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. I - DISASTER
  7. II - THE DIVINE EMPEROR
  8. III - FREE SPEECH IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
  9. IV - THE COMING OF THE CHRISTIAN STATE
  10. V - TRUE GOD FROM TRUE GOD?
  11. VI - THE SWANSONG OF FREE SPEECH: THE THEOLOGICAL ORATIONS OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS
  12. VII - CONSTANTINOPLE, 381: THE IMPOSITION OF ORTHODOXY
  13. VIII - AMBROSE AND THE POLITICS OF CONTROL
  14. IX - THE ASSAULT ON PAGANISM
  15. X - EPIPHANIUS’ WITCHHUNT
  16. XI - ENFORCING THE LAW
  17. XII - AUGUSTINE SETS THE SEAL
  18. XIII - COLLAPSE IN THE CHRISTIAN WEST
  19. XIV - FAITH, REASON AND THE TRINITY
  20. CONCLUSION
  21. APPENDIX: THE CREEDS OF NICAEA (325), CONSTANTINOPLE (381) AND ATHANASIUS (c.430?)
  22. NOTES
  23. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  24. INDEX