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

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Table of ContentsTitle PageCopyrigh
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For my children, Barney, Issie, Tom
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PREFACEIN 1999 I signed a contract
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case discussed in this book, one ca
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to ask which of the enormously wide
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centred introduction to critical th
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essential. The Trinity consists of
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discussion of spiritual matters was
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borders, which ran along the rivers
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Valentinian’s own commanders were
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of booty from further raiding. Duri
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of the major cities of the east. As
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IITHE DIVINE EMPERORIN 363, the cou
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Constantine is God’s viceregent o
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Rome in 357, the first time he had
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result that a complex of interlocki
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the first time, a budget could be p
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The events of the next three years
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circumstances, Themistius’ panegy
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IIIFREE SPEECH IN THE CLASSICAL WOR
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be counterproductive. Diodotus went
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of the Forms. Once they had underst
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Even though only a tiny proportion
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and imagery of the Bible. He was re
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others of one’s own beliefs, and
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IVTHE COMING OF THE CHRISTIAN STATE
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Irenaeus, bishop of the (Greek-spea
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forward an alternative tradition of
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important provinces of Egypt and Sy
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Hill. These buildings were plain on
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his ‘betrayal’ would have to be
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included) is a collection of a very
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philosophy, not from scripture. It
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reinstated in his bishopric in 327,
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However, mainstream Christian teach
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somewhere between God and the mater
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AD 200. In Tertullian’s Trinity,
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discussions about the way in which
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Church was now firmly embedded with
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Creator. The incarnation of this fu
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of Megara, Simonides, and Pindar, a
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to the Nicenes, he kept his persona
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VITHE SWANSONG OF FREE SPEECH: THE
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Each year in April the grain ships
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about the issues openly - when Greg
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McGluckin suggests that Gregory may
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linking of soul to body, of intelle
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Jesus that suffers alongside a divi
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unaware that behind Maximus lay the
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VIICONSTANTINOPLE, 381: THE IMPOSIT
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have been used loosely of subordina
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and Antioch without a bishop. The a
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majority of the Nicene bishops by b
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not yet consecrated) and Alexandria
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381 and allowing the Church as a wh
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his own and that he put in place as
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his ideas on the Trinity, but then
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was afraid of.In 379, Ambrose met t
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Instead of the great council of the
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Arcadius the status of an Augustus
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faith, they issued a law on 23 Janu
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Homoian faith as a price for his su
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governor concerning the sacking of
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spaces’ - in other words, to keep
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Certainly Theodosius had become awa
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restored into the 380s, but shortly
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Serapis. Symmachus’ son married N
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threatening Attila with death if he
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XEPIPHANIUS’ WITCHHUNTDURING the
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the use of allegory; he accepted th
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come to Bethlehem to work on his tr
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that in Christ I am as submissive t
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boundaries of orthodoxy were consta
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The use of the law to provide a res
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followed. When, in 457, the emperor
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Similar examples are recorded of th
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carried out miracles and as human w
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also in 435, it decreed ‘that Ire
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imperial officials now drew up thei
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Justinian also tried to find a solu
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the west - but these could be treat
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of Paul. In the Greek world, in the
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can only be made righteous through
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saved. Why God picks out anyone fro
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trust in God and the authority of t
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subordinate being to one who does t
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was no Trinity, so little does the
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writing at a time of political and
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XIIICOLLAPSE IN THE CHRISTIAN WESTA
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of a high standard. Excavations sho
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power was the conversions of Arian
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has perished from among us and no o
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formula in his calculation of the
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programme was one of renovatio, ‘
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XIVFAITH, REASON AND THE TRINITYWIT
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was the most prestigious - teachers
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is no progress... This is the sure
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reasoned defence of the Trinity and
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the doctrine of the Trinity could b
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CONCLUSIONWe must not see the fact
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Torrance’s argument is presented
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Page 218 and 219: NOTES1 For details, see Select Bibl
Page 220 and 221: Chapter Two: The Divine Emperor1 I
Page 222 and 223: Chapter Three: Free Speech in the C
Page 224 and 225: Chapter Four: The Coming of the Chr
Page 226 and 227: Chapter Five: True God from True Go
Page 228 and 229: Chapter Six: The Swansong of Free S
Page 230 and 231: Chapter Eight: Ambrose and the Poli
Page 232 and 233: them back on to the bodies of the f
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Page 236 and 237: Chapter Eleven: Enforcing the Law1
Page 238 and 239: 30 For the Council of Constantinopl
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Page 244 and 245: 15 Quoted in Bainton, p.24.16 Israe
Page 246 and 247: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYNote: the easies
Page 248 and 249: Fossier, Robert (ed.), The Cambridg
Page 250 and 251: Mackay, Christopher S., Ancient Rom
Page 252 and 253: Philadelphia, 2002.Van Dam, Raymond
Page 254 and 255: Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and afterl
Page 256 and 257: democratic approach to knowledgeemp
Page 258 and 259: BalkansbaptismBarnabas, epistle ofB
Page 262 and 263: called traditoresexemption from tax
Page 264 and 265: Nicene Creed revisedresponsibility
Page 266 and 267: continuing debatedebate on Jesus’
Page 268 and 269: Evodius of UzalisExodus, Book offai
Page 270 and 271: Godheaddistinctions withinnature of
Page 272 and 273: Gregory the Great, Popeand Councils
Page 274 and 275: Ibas, Bishop of EdessaIgnatius, Bis
Page 276 and 277: proclaims Peter as rockrelationship
Page 278 and 279: and Council of Ephesusmeets Attila
Page 280 and 281: defeatexecutionNicene faithand Pris
Page 282 and 283: Latin terminologylegal imposition (
Page 284 and 285: papacy, exiled to Avignonpapal juri
Page 286 and 287: Quadi tribeRahner, KarlRavenna, lib
Page 288 and 289: taxation systemviolence in conquest
Page 290 and 291: Sirmium creed (357)slavery, institu
Page 292 and 293: as co-emperorCouncil of Constantino
Page 294 and 295: works, burnedtheology, GreekTheophi
Page 296 and 297: Valentinian II, co-EmperorAmbrose o
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