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- Title
Constantine: the Legal Recognition of Christianity and its Antecedents.
- Authors
RAMELLI, Ilaria L. E.
- Abstract
As Gallien seems to have done before him, but with a partial and temporary effect, and as Hadrian, Severus Alexander, and Elagabalus may have intended to do, Constantine reversed the effects of a senatus consultum from A.D. 35, transforming Christianity from a superstitio illicita to a religio licita in the empire. I study the implications of that senatus consultum, which is attested not only in Tertullian, but also in a Porphyrian passage, besides the Acts of Apollonius. I endeavour to contextualise it in the political and religious framework of the Tiberian age and the relationship between Tiberius and the Senate.
- Subjects
CHRISTIANITY; RECOGNITION (Philosophy); BATHS of Nero (Rome, Italy); ELAGABALUS, Emperor of Rome, 204-222; CONTEXTUAL analysis; RELIGION; SENATUS consultum Silanianum
- Publication
Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia, 2013, Vol 22, p65
- ISSN
1133-0104
- Publication type
Article