About this title: A provoking and timely examination of one of the most important times in Church history. In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Pr
Date Published: 2009-02-05
ISBN-13:9781590201718ISBN:159020171X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Overlook Press, NY
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781590201718ISBN:159020171X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Press, Woodstock
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781590201718ISBN:159020171X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781590201718ISBN:159020171X
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"I really enjoyed this book. Yes, it's non-fiction. No, there's not a plot per se. Yes there are a lot of really bizarre names in there.
I should note that I am first of all a Christian and maybe that made it more interesting to me. A non-Christian or someone unsure of their beliefs might come away from this book a little more cynical and unsure. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believe that following the period in which Christ's original apostles spread the gospel there was a falling away from the truth- an apostasy- and that the truth was not restored to the Earth until 1820.
As I read this book, which I felt was very well laid out, I think I would have given it the title "The Fall of Night". The author is trying to show that open discussion and free thinking ended with events in and around 381 a.d. within the Roman Empire. As I read, I saw the apostasy crashing down on Europe. It was a fascinating book, and those familiar with the Middle Ages will see the beginnings of that period. Accounts from the time are used and some of the 'characters' become very real. Not least of my discoveries was that the Nicene Creed isn't what I thought, nor was it formulated completely in Nicaea.
To be frank, I think the preface and conclusion sections could be skipped. I am not naive enough to think that the rest of the book is not colored by the author's perspective and goals in writing the book, but those two sections did nothing but lower my opinion of the author. The points he sums up in the conclusion I feel are made very persuasively by the rest of the book, and the preface is mostly about why he wrote it. However, reading them will perhaps help the reader to be aware of his agenda and thus enjoy the book a bit more."
"In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the nature of God, and basically defined Christianity in the strict way that we all know it today. It was the first time in a thousand years of Greco-Roman civilization free thought was unambiguously suppressed.
Yet for some reason, most history books claim that this decision was reached by a Church consensus. Freeman explores the reasons behind this historical coverup."
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