AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State
Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State
Charles Freeman
ISBN: | 9781446419243 |
Publisher: | Pimlico |
Published: | 5 February, 2011 |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Links | Penguin UK |
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AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State
Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State
Charles Freeman
In AD 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 the Godhead; all other interpretations were now declared heretical. Moreover, for the first time in a thousand years of Greco-Roman civilization free thought was unambiguously suppressed. Yet su
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