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AD 381
Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State
by Charles Freeman- Language: english
- Author: Charles Freeman
- Format: hardcover, 256 pages
- Release date: February 5, 2009
- Genres: history, religion, christianity, philosophy, theology, atheism
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
- ISBN: 9781590201718 (159020171X)
About The Book
‘“We shall believe in the single deity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost under the concept of equal majesty and of the Holy Trinity. We command that persons who follow this rule shall embrace the name of catholic Christians. The rest, however, whom we judge demented and insane, shall carry the infamy of heretical dogmas. Their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitten first by Divine Vengeance, and secondly by the retribution of hostility which we shall assume in accordance with the Divine Judgment.”’ — Emperor Theodosius.
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 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. Yet surprisingly, the popular histories claim that the Christian Church reached a consensus on the Trinity at the Council of Constantinople in AD 381. Why has Theodosius’s revolution been airbrushed from the historical record? In this groundbreaking new book, acclaimed historian Charles Freeman shows that the council was in fact a sham, only taking place after Theodosius’s decree had become law. The Church was acquiescing to the overwhelming power of the emperor. 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 AD 381, as Freeman puts it, was “a turning point which time forgot.”
A provoking and timely examination of one of the most important times in Church history.
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