Abstract
Presents a review article focusing on the conversion of the senators of Rome to Christianity based on the book "The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire," by Michele Renee Salzman. Imperial support for Christianity in the fourth century AD; Conversion of Christianity into the official religion of the Roman world; Chaotic process in which the Roman governing classes abandoned their patronage of the old forms of religion in favor of the new; Use of coercion to force Roman officials to adopt the new religion; Observation that over the course of the centuries Christianity had been absorbing the ideologies of the pagan, secular world.
Original language | English (US) |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 257-278 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | International Journal of the Classical Tradition |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - Sep 1 2002 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social & Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire, The (Book)
- Salzman, Michele Renee
- HISTORY
- Church history
- Christianity
- Paganism
- Rome
- CONSTANTINES, 306-363