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Housekeeping Notes

Housekeeping Notes. Today is the last day to sign up for ET help – see me Missing work??? Make-up quizzes last day. Christianity as the Official Religion of the Roman Empire. pp. 84-85. Constantine – Edict of Milan, 313.

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Housekeeping Notes

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  1. Housekeeping Notes • Today is the last day to sign up for ET help – see me • Missing work??? • Make-up quizzes last day

  2. Christianity as the Official Religion of the Roman Empire pp. 84-85

  3. Constantine – Edict of Milan, 313 • Christianity is legal now – many Christians receive public benefits (churches and priests freed from taxation, churches can receive donations, etc.) • Constantine moved capital of Empire to Constantinople • Consequences: center of world is now in the East, culture has shifted from East to West, confusion and misunderstanding grow between East and West, Byzantium becomes prosperous and heavily populated while West becomes “backward”

  4. Roman Empire at the Time of Constantine – AD 324 http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=ll

  5. Fortress Constantinople

  6. Julian the Apostate • What does “Apostate” mean? • Did not persecute Christians but sought to put paganism on an equal footing • Pagan rituals and worship re-established • Financial benefits and exemptions to churches are revoked • Allowed heretical bishops to return

  7. Julian in His Own Words • “These impious Galileans not only feed their own poor, but ours also; welcoming them into their agape, they attract them, as children are attracted, with cakes.”

  8. More Julian • “Whilst the pagan priests neglect the poor, the hated Galileans devote themselves to works of charity, and by a display of false compassion have established and given effect to their pernicious errors. See their love-feasts, and their tables spread for the indigent. Such practice is common among them, and causes a contempt for our gods.”

  9. Theodosius I the Great • In 391, he decreed that Christianity would be the state religion of the Roman Empire • Paganism was outlawed, heresy was a legal offense • Big picture • 312: Christianity is persecuted • 391: Christianity is the state religion • How do we get from Christianity being against the law to NOT being Christian as a legal offense?

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