Christendom Quotes

“Often discussed as the Christianization of the Roman Empire, this process can be more accurately cast as the Romanization of Christianity: one in which the religion turned itself into a branch of the Roman state in the fourth and fifth centuries.”
― Peter Heather, Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300

“As late as 300, at the time of Constantine’s conversion, Christianity possessed no central authority structure at all. It was composed of a series of mostly urban congregations, who elected their own leaders and despite some commonalities in required beliefs, personal behaviour and institutional organization for the most part ran their own affairs independently.”
― Peter Heather, Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300

“The Arian dispute is not (as it is often presented) a story of deviation from a well- and long-defined mainstream Christian belief-set, but of an intense struggle to establish one for the first time.”
― P J Heather, Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300