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Chapter Four: The Coming of the Christian State
1 See Richard Norris, ‘Articulating Identity’, Chapter Eight in Young, Ayres and
Louth. This is useful for many of the themes discussed in the early part of this
chapter.
2 Quoted in Ehrman, p.141.
3 The concept of apostolic succession is well dealt with in Pelikan, The
Christian Tradition pp.108—20.
4 Quoted in Markus, Gregory the Great and his World, p.7.
5 A good introduction to early Christian texts can be found in Ehrman.
6 The name Tanakh derives from the three parts of the Jewish scriptures: the
Torah, the five books of Moses; the Nevi‘im, the Prophets; and the Kethuvim,
the Writings (which include the Psalms, the Book of Job, the Song of Songs and
Ecclesiastes).
7 For Marcion, see Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, pp.72—81.
8 Quoted in MacMullen, Christianising the Roman Empire, p.40.
9 Quoted in Rives, pp.285—307 for this theme. The quotation is from Cyprian’s
De Unitate, 17.428.
10 Quoted in Ehrman, p.137.
11 Liebeschuetz, The Decline and Fall of the Roman City, p.140.
12 The quotation from Jerome’s Letter XXII is to be found in Select Letters of St
Jerome, translated by F. A. Wright, London, 1933. The quotation from Dante
comes from the Inferno, Canto XIX, lines 115—117, translated by Barbara
Reynolds. The degree to which European architecture was revolutionised by this
building programme is still often unrecognised, but see Janes.
13 Cameron and Hall, Book One:38.
14 This is the central argument of Drake. The developments described below can
be followed in this book.
15 For a balanced assessment of the dispute and Arius’ ideas, see Williams.