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Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers

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Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers

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  1. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers

  2. “…Your father Yazdgard ruled the kingdom in peace & well-being for 21 years and all his enemies everywhere were subjected and friendly to him. This was because he honored the Christians, he built churches and granted them peace. At the end of his reign, when he turned away from this beneficial policy and became persecutor of the Christians, spilling the innocent blood of a God-fearing people, you know very well yourself of the extraordinary death he died…” Letter of Constantine to Shapur II (Vita Constantini IV.11)

  3. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire

  4. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire A. Background: Syriac Christianity

  5. Syriac Manuscript depicting Moses before Pharaoh

  6. Constantine & Helena, as imagined by Christians in medieval central Asia

  7. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire A. Background: Syriac Christianity B. Political & Religious Context

  8. East Roman and Sassanian [Persian] Empire

  9. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire A. Background: Syriac Christianity B. Political & Religious Context

  10. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire A. Background: Syriac Christianity B. Political & Religious Context C. Persecution of Christians

  11. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire A. Background: Syriac Christianity B. Political & Religious Context C. Persecution of Christians II. Christianity in the Caucasus

  12. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire A. Background: Syriac Christianity B. Political & Religious Context C. Persecution of Christians II. Christianity in the Caucasus A. Armenia B. Georgia [=Iberia]

  13. The Caucasus:  Armenia & Georgia

  14. Armenian Manuscripts

  15. Monasticism in Georgia: A Georgian Stylite

  16. Christianity On and Beyond the Roman Frontiers I. Christians in the Persian Empire A. Background: Syriac Christianity B. Political & Religious Context C. Persecution of Christians II. Christianity in the Caucasus A. Armenia B. Georgia [=Iberia] III. The Danube Frontier: Christianizing the Goths

  17. …Now this people became Christian in the following way. In the reigns of Valerian and Gallienus (253-268), a large number of Scythians from beyond the Ister (Danube) crossed into Roman territory and overran much of Europe.  Crossing also into Asia, they reached as far as Galatia and Cappadocia. They took many prisoners, including some who were members of the clergy, and went home with a great quantity of booty.  Now the pious band of prisoners, living as they did among the barbarians, converted many of them to the way of piety and persuaded them to adopt the Christian faith instead of the pagan. Among these prisoners were the ancestors of Ulfilas; they were Cappadocians by nationality…    

  18. …It was this Ulfilas who led the exodus of the pious ones, being the first bishop appointed among them…Ulfilas was elected by Eusebius (of Nicomedia) and the bishops of his party (the Arians) as bishop of the Christians in the Getic land.  Among the matters which he attended to among them, he was the inventor for them of their own letters, and translated all the Scriptures into their language - with the exception, that is, of the Books of Kings. This was because these books contain the history of wars, while the Gothic people, being lovers of war, were in need of something to restrain their passion for fighting rather than to incite them to it, which those books have the power to do… The emperor established this mass of refugees in the territories of Moesia, where each man chose to live; and he held Ulfilas in the highest esteem, so as often to refer to him as the "Moses of our time." - Philostorgius Ecclesiastical History 2. 5, as excerpted by Photius

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