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CONSTANTINE AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITYWeek Six
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para = alongside
parallel paralegal parenthesis
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ject/jet = throw
projectile jettison eject
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CONSTANTINE AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITYWeek Six
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I. A bride’s trousseau
The trousseau from the marriage of Secundus and Projecta combines pagan and Christian symbolism.
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I. A bride’s trousseau Constantine
integrated Christianity with a pagan empire
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Jerusalem Temple
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II. The Jesus MovementA. Judaism
Toleration by Romans: No accommodation toward polytheistic cults, but Romans tried not to antagonize them
Pharisees: Stringent Jewish sect that resisted Roman culture, but did not advocate revolt
Zealots: Armed rebellion; Rome responds with severe repression
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Masada
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II. The Jesus MovementB. Jewish Origins of
Christianity1. Jesus of Nazareth
Message: a kingdom of peace and love
Crucifixion: Jesus, savior of the world, dies a scandalous death
New theology New practices:
ritual meals, feet-washing, baptism
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2. Spreading the Faith Paul of Tarsus:
planted churches in Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy
Persecution Attractive
Christianity
II. The Jesus Movement
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Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity
Question: How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization?
Thesis: The central doctrines of Christianity prompted and sustained attractive, liberating, and effective social relations and organizations.
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Questions for discussion, part IChapter One
Describe the network theory of conversion.
Chapters Four and Seven What made Christian
faith so attractive? Push and pull.
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biblio/libri = book
bibliography Bible library
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corp/carn = body
corpse corporal corpulent
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Questions for discussion, part II Chapter Five: Stark argues that Christianity
was especially attractive to women. How so?
Chapter Eight: Stark argues that martyrs were not clinically crazy or masochistic. Why not?
Chapter Ten: In the end, what is the revolutionary message of the early Christians to the Roman world?
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III. Constantine—Christianity with an AdvantageA. Empire on the
Defensive Over-extension of
imperial boundaries Archaic economic
system Barbarian menace The Empire under
Diocletian
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B. Triumph of Christianity
Rise of Constantine Conversion of
Constantine Official religion of
Rome Suppression of pagan
cults Growth of Christianity
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Constantine I
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Constantine II
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IV. Imperialism—Christianity of Violence
A. Theological debates1. Nature of Christ
Monarchians Gnostics Arians Origen and the
Council of Nicea2. Nature of
Salvation Donatists Pelagians Augustine of
Hippo
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B. Coercion Emperor Theodosius Case of Gaza The Big Question
IV. Imperialism—Christianity of Violence
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The Spread of Christianity
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Critiques of the Constantinian Shift Tertullian: “It is no part of religion to compel
religion” Lactantius: “There is no occasion for violence
and injury, for religion cannot be compelled by force . . . We teach, we prove, we show.”
Augustine: “Christ-followers” had turned into “depraved persons who in mobs fill the churches in a bodily sense only.”
Jesus: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus lauds those who are gentle, poor in spirit, peacemakers, and persecuted.
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Epilogue #1 Stanley Hauerwas, Shane Claiborne,
Greg Boyd, and American civil religion
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Boyd on Constantine
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Epilogue #2 The Trousseau