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Author Freeman, Charles, 1947-

Title A.D. 381 : heretics, pagans and the dawn of the monotheistic state / Charles Freeman.

Imprint Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  270.2 F876a 2009    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xx, 252 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Note Originally published: London : Pimlico, 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-236) and index.
Contents Disaster -- The divine emperor -- Free speech in the classical world -- The coming of the Christian state -- True God from true God? -- The swansong of free speech : the theological orations of Gregory of Nazianzus -- Constantinople, 381 : the imposition of orthodoxy -- Ambrose and the politics of control -- The assault on paganism -- Epiphanius' witchhunt -- Enforcing the law -- Augustine sets the seal -- Collapse in the Christian West -- Faith, reason, and the Trinity -- Appendix. The creeds of Nicaea (325), Constantinople (391), and Athanasius (c. 430?).
Subject Theodosius I, Emperor of Rome, 347-395.
Council of Constantinople (1st : 381)
Trinity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
Church history -- 4th century.
Added Title Anno Domini 381
ISBN 159020171X : $27.95
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