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a favourite philosopher and move fr
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provide acceptable ways of understa
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but he attempted to diminish the pu
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as the first century as leaders of
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from oral tradition towards a faith
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to Rome to his death in 107. 10In t
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given freedom to worship and the ri
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Christianity, war and imperial conq
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sixteen bishops are known for the w
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Alexander counterattacked by gettin
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The Nicene statement was to form th
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VTRUE GOD FROM TRUE GOD?ON the deat
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Despite the assertion of the Nicene
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anyone declare the birth of the Son
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through faith. This was a fundament
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his successor Jovian.As if the deba
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God the Father, Jesus and the Holy
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had arrived in 348 from his native
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fact, it added a new element to the
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to threaten their opponents with th
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Septimius Severus had rebuilt Byzan
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remote area of Cappadocia that, sin
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Constantinople was full of apprehen
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sunlight when they first come out i
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weeps and sighs over his death, he
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shine upon more illustrious souls.
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that his own lack of resolution had
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Church of the Holy Apostles almost
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but as the western bishops tended t
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Macedonians may have left even befo
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based on that of Nicaea, with some
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of the imposed theological formula.
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a very large selection of alternati
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VIIIAMBROSE AND THE POLITICS OF CON
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broke out on the death of Bishop Li
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these events was the ‘council’
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be deposed. He presented the small
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and to follow our ancestors, as the
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Ambrose consolidated his success th
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IXTHE ASSAULT ON PAGANISMWHEN Justi
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officials. The praetorian prefect o
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without any apparent loss of face.
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by local fanatics who exploited his
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would have led to him becoming co-e
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Theodosius was compassionate to the
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bemoan that fault of his. 12 To Amb
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Gothic, inventing an alphabet for t
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were reunited with him. Unlike Augu
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Bethlehem. This was an outrageous i
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makes the astonishing assertion tha
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XIENFORCING THE LAWWITH heresy now
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of the fourth century,’ writes Ca
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humilation of the pagans, stones fr
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restraints on the practice. One fif
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redemption of mankind might be thre
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that we are zealous so far as is in
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monumental disaster’. 25 The Alex
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Chalcedonian formula had achieved a
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XIIAUGUSTINE SETS THE SEALON the de
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ones. In contrast, there is little
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to become the theological treatises
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by a leap of faith. One of his favo
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Theological Orations had been trans
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image of God, then there may be tra
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into the iniquity of the world as a
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grasped through faith; that human b
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supported by large numbers of merce
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quite humble dwellings, disappear,
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short, the spread of Christianity i
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the ‘Holy Catholic Fathers’, th
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wrote that they were no longer need
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In 1000 there were still only a tin
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France in the twelfth century and g
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is one feature proper to God the Fa
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importance of God’s absolute powe
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note’, writes the scholar Jarosla
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that of religious toleration. The f
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breaks down the barrier that Plato
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responsibility for proclaiming the
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scraps of obsolete traditionalism a
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missionary Ulfilas and the brillian
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APPENDIX: THE CREEDS OF NICAEA (325
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everlasting fire. This is the catho
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Chapter One: Disaster1 For a standa
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Perkins, p.41.10 The separation of
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on Digeser.13 Ibid., p.110.14 The d
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16 Socrates, Ecclesiastical History
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MacMullen, Voting about God in Earl
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Chapter Seven: Constantinople, 381:
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Chapter Nine: The Assault on Pagani
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1 J. N. D. Kelly, p.197.Chapter Ten
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doctrine of hell as it was develope
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A good overview from which the Syri
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Chapter Twelve: Augustine Sets the
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Chapter Thirteen: Collapse in the C
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Chapter Fourteen: Faith, Reason and
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intellectual tradition by Aquinas a
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Christian Discourse, Berkeley and L
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Honoré, Tony, Law in the Crisis of
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Pelikan, Jaroslav, Credo: Historica
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abacus, knowledge ofAbelard, PeterA
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as eastern headquartersopposing bis
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Augustine of Canterbury, StAugustin
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Britaineconomic collapseMaximus’
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administrative structure, controlal
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rise to domination over empireand S
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creedHomoian beliefsrefusal to conv
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Ephesus, Council (431)Ephesus, Coun
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Gabanius, king of the QuadiGaiseric
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religious tolerationRhine campaign
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Hill, EdmundHippo, Vandal invasion
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Jerome, Stadmonishes Ambroseascetic
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discriminates against Christianspag
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creedexclusionMacedonius, Bishop of
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MontanusMystical Theology (Dionysiu
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On the Trinity (Hilary of Poitiers)
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dutiesedictsmould Churchand promoti
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Sabelliussacrificing, bannedsaintho
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Symmachus, prefect of RomeSynesius
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and Peter of Alexandriapolitical sk
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‘of equal majesty’as orthodoxyp
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papal jurisdiction, acceptancePaul,