Christianity and the Roman Empire
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Christianity and the Roman Empire
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844568.book.part.047

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Abstract

Christianity originated during the first half of the first century CE at the outskirts of the Roman Empire, in Judea, as a small Jewish religious sect centered on the figure of Jesus of Nazareth, known as Christ or Messiah. By the beginning of the fourth century CE it would become the preferred religion of the Roman political elite and of the Roman emperor himself, and yet the intermediate centuries were marked by mutual distrust, ideological confrontation, and occasional periods of active and cruel persecution of Christians by the Roman authorities.

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