Edict of Milan: Difference between revisions

This period of Church history is also known as the '''"Peace of the Church"'''. Eusebius says that it stated that "it has pleased us to remove all conditions whatsoever."<ref name=fordham>"Paul Halsall, "Galerius and Constantine: Edicts of Toleration 311/313", Fordham University; [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/edict-milan.asp Fordham.edu]; Internet, accessed 13 October 2014.</ref> The edict further demanded that individual Romans right any wrongs towards Christians: "...the same shall be restored to the Christians without payment or any claim of recompense and without any kind of fraud or deception."<ref name=fordham/> The exhortation to right historic wrongs may also reflect the leaders' desires to avoid unfavourable consequences such as social unrest and further conquests. Koszarycz says that Constantine was superstitious and believed in the existence of the non-Christian gods enough that they did not want to offset the balance of good and evil.<ref>{{cite web |author=Yuri Koszarycz |title=Constantinian Christianity |publisher=The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies |url=http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/eccles/constantine.html |website=The-orb.net |access-date=14 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215120014/http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/eccles/constantine.html |archive-date=15 February 2015}}</ref> It was believed that the sooner that balance was restored by the Romans establishing a state of justice with the Christians, the sooner the state would become stable.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

 

 

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