When Jesus Became God Quotes

“Augustine of Hippo, the future saint, would later become a Manichean and remain one for most of his young manhood.”
― Richard E. Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome

“These Greek-speaking city folk were no country bumpkins, like those they called pagans—pagani—a term meaning “rustics” or “hicks.”18 They inhabited one of the liveliest, most urbane, and culturally diverse regions on earth. Many could read and write; the early Christians, like the Jews, considered themselves People of the Book and prized the ability to read Scripture.”
― Richard E. Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome

“Serious disputes are seldom resolved without a genuine change in the parties’ thinking. And a false consensus may be more productive of conflict than an honest disagreement.”
― Richard E. Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome

“Christianity did, holding Jesus out not just as a model of right behavior, but an elder brother whose inheritance of immortality all God’s children might share.”
― Richard E. Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome

“A number of bishops and deacons therefore handed over Bibles and chalices to the authorities as ordered. Later, many of them would be called “traitors” after the Latin word for handers-over, traditores, and the Church would split bitterly over the question of their authority to perform their priestly functions.”
― Richard E. Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome