HIST 1001 Chapter : Christianity 3
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Constantine 288-337 ad: first christian emperor, not named a caesar by diocletian, roman political situation, battle of milvian bridge, 312 ad, maxetius and constantine are only two left standing. Meet at milvian bridge, just outside of rome. Constantine emperor: association with christianity, argue whether this is actually true or not, his mother was a christian, and so was his wife, after this conversion he did a number of things. Built the first real cathedral in rome . Ordered that work was not to be done on. Constantinople (byzantium) made capital: designed as a christian city. Orthodoxy and heresy: orthodoxy=right thinking, heresy=wrong thinking, important bc salvation depends on believing the right things, constantine made it possible to distinguish between heresy and orthodoxy, examples of heresies, donatism 313-316 ad, sacraments. No people do not know what the ethics of the priest are. Argued that god the son could not be equal to god the father bc: god is self-existent.
