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AD 381: A book recommendation


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I strongly recommend AD 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State by Charles Freeman. This book deals with the major impact that the Emperor Theodosius (reigned AD 378-95) and the Council of Constantinople (AD 381) had on Christianity and the Roman World.

 

According to Freeman, Theodosius was not a fanatical orthodox Christian (although I might disagree with this perspective). He did, however, set the groundwork for the brutal suppression of competing

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