A.D. 381 heretics, pagans, and the dawn of the monotheistic state ( PDFDrive )

Chapter Seven: Constantinople, 381: the Imposition of Orthodoxy
1 King has the full versions of the edicts/decrees with comment. I have also
drawn on Errington, Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius, from
which this quotation is taken (p.222). Errington sees the decree as focused on
Illyricum alone, where there were substantial Homoian populations.
2 White, lines 1514—17.
3 A full account is given by McGluckin, pp.350—69.
4 White, lines 1680—7.
5 Ibid., lines 1704—9. For the interference of the emperor, see Hanson, The
Search for the Christian Doctrine of God, pp.814—15.
6 Epistle 130, quoted in Ruether, p.48.
7 Sozomen’s comments are in his History of the Church, Book VII:8; Socrates’
in his Ecclesiastical History, V:8.
8 Sozomen, op.cit., VII:9.
9 Flavian was consecrated but Paulinus’ supporters refused to give in. Paulinus
went off to a council in Rome in 382, where he was endorsed by the western
bishops. The eastern bishops seem to have split over the issue, leaving an
awkward void in this important part of the empire.
10 Socrates, op.cit., V:8.
11 Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History, Book V:9. Available in the Select Library
of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, second series,
Volume Three, Oxford, 1892, or through the Internet.
12 Sozomen, op.cit., VII:12.
13 Ibid., VII:12.
14 Hanson, Studies in Christian Antiquity, ‘The Doctrine of the Trinity Achieved
in 381’. The quotation is on pp.243—4.