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In A.D. 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debateā¦
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The year 381 marked the point at which the new Roman emperor, Theodosius, convened the Church council that outlawed Arianism and made Jesusā role as God incarnate, the Second Person of the Trinity, an essential part of Christian orthodoxy.Ā For the historian Charles Freeman, this noxious combination of secular and ecclesiastical power stands as the origin of the development he described earlier in The Closing of the Western Mind (Anchor, 2005).Ā Freemanās analysis of the āGreek-ificationā of Christian thinking is very sharp, and he tells the story of Theodosius well, even if he sometimes seems to be reading elements ofā¦
From Richard's list on Jesus and theological battles of early Christians.
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