CHRISTIANITY IN ROME

Analysis on the Progression of Christianity in Rome

Analysis on the Progression of Christianity in Rome

Introduction

Freedom came to Christianity and the Church had become extinct when only the echoes of the last great persecution. It was just Galerius, the main instigator of this onslaught of persecution, the first to draw practical consequences of its complete failure. At Diocletian's successor to the supreme imperial dignity, the August Galerius, near death, an edict issued at Sardica that sets new standards to the Roman policy against Christianity. The edict granted the status of Christian tolerance, “there again Christians, he said, and hold their meetings and worship, provided they do nothing against the public order."

Discussion

Progress of the Christian Religion from Persecuted Sect De Facto State Religion in the Late Roman Empire

Well, the evolution of Christianity in the Roman Empire was too violent and too slow. By the third century there lived a huge crisis with constant civil wars, barbarian invasions, emperors killed one after another, and a town that left to believe that it was a privilege to be Roman, who lost the pride of belonging to that great empire of Augustus, Trajan, Hadrian and many other talented men. In the context of this crisis, the Gods were also in disgrace, were mixed with oriental idols and other religions of neighboring towns, which in the context of freedom of worship Roman did grow its influence on an unbelieving people (Gerberding and Moran, 2004).

One of these religions, Christianity was gradually increasing its flow of followers, but not without occasional heavy persecution, as well as edicts of the emperors of the moment that forced them to worship the heathen. Christianity would not accept another God than his, so he could not be added to the Roman religion, as the excluded all in the same way it did Judaism.

In 285 Diocletian took power, and there occurs one of the bloodiest persecutions of history: the emperor could see the danger posed to the traditional Roman religion spread so different in spirit to traditional religions.

However, after the civil war that enveloped the tetrarchs many years, with the victories of Constantine over Maxentius, Maximian and Licinius, the sole ruler of Rome again realized the power that could represent the new religion if it became his side, as needed to establish its government with a solid base.

Christian Constantine was not even for a moment, and this judged by their actions bit pious (defeated his enemies with fire and sword, executing shadow Who could do such as Licinius seized and murdered his son and his wife in cold blood), and the fact that while the Christians given freedom of religion (Edict of Milan, 313), ever one God forbade pagan, and persecuted those who practiced these cults.

However, his interventions in the Council of Nicea, in 325, were to impose unity of action in Christianity, to condemn the heresy of Arianism, for religion was strong and united, and formalize the Christianity that would use from then on all the structure of the Roman state ...