Pax Romana by Jonathan Hickman6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() This notion is so pervasive that an historical retrospective of Christianity of any period, from the sect that became a movement, to the Reformation, to the present day’s multiple Christian iterations, is framed by the late Patristic era. I trace it to the period that the church developed into a formal organization with the establishment of canons and creeds defined by Church councils. There is an abiding image of the Church in wider public consciousness that it is unwittingly and in some cases antagonistically exclusionist. My thesis examines relations among practitioners of various religions, especially Christians and Jews, during the era when Jesus’ project went from being a Galilean sect, to a persecuted minority, to religio licita status, and eventually to imperial favor, all happening between the first century resurrection of Jesus and the fourth century rise of Constantine. ![]()
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