A.D. 381 A.D. 381

A.D. 381

Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State

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Publisher Description

“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

GENRE
Religion & Spirituality
RELEASED
2009
February 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
273
Pages
PUBLISHER
ABRAMS, Inc.
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
1.4
MB
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