Why Jesus failed to stop the fall of Christian Rome

Why Jesus failed to stop the fall of Christian Rome

St. Augustine tries to explain in his most well known work 'The City of God against the pagans' why the fall of the city was no disaster. The book was written to refute pagan accusations that the abandonment of the Greco-Roman gods had led to the catastrophe. However surely Jesus should have been supporting the Roman Empire now that it worshipped him?

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Moses of Crete, The Jewish Messiah of the fifth Century

Moses of Crete, The Jewish Messiah of the fifth Century

Moses of Crete was hailed as the new Moses by many Jews of the fifth Century but instead led his followers to disaster on the island of Crete. He had promised to part the Mediterranean Sea - just like...

1 Kesä 202416min

Early Christian Councils and slavery

Early Christian Councils and slavery

Slavery - one of the prime examples of man’s inhumanity to man and something that was obviously practised widely during the period of early Christianity. But what did the early Church have to say abou...

26 Kesä 202328min

Slavery and the early Church fathers

Slavery and the early Church fathers

The regulation of slavery in the Old Testament and the implicit acceptance of the practice in the New Testament is arguably the most contentious issue in the Bible. You would think Jesus, supposedly ...

2 Kesä 202332min

Celsus on the 'resurrection'

Celsus on the 'resurrection'

Celsus criticizes the Bible resurrection stories as well as the crucifixion accounts. Celsus, a second Century pagan philosopher was a strong opponent of Christianity and wrote a powerful critique of ...

27 Maalis 202337min

Paganism in 12th Century Europe

Paganism in 12th Century Europe

Paganism in twelfth-century Europe. Not all of Europe was Christian in the twelfth century. The Baltic area populated by the Wendish people, the Pomeranians, Prussians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanian...

21 Helmi 202348min

Persecution of Catholics by the Vandals. Part 1 Rise of the Arian Christian Vandals

Persecution of Catholics by the Vandals. Part 1 Rise of the Arian Christian Vandals

The Vandal persecution of Catholics during the time of the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. Part 1 charts their rise and migration from German lands to Africa during which time the Vandals converted to...

4 Joulu 202244min

Cosmas the 6th Century Monk on the Genesis story

Cosmas the 6th Century Monk on the Genesis story

Cosmas the monk on Genesis. Cosmas Indicopleustes was a 6th Century Byzantine monk who wrote the book 'Christian Topography' in which he defends the concept of a flat Earth agains the pagan theories o...

30 Syys 202220min

The tree of Thor

The tree of Thor

The destruction of the tree of Thor and its associated grove, an important pagan centre for worship in Hesse, Germany by St. Boniface was arguably the start of the large-scale conversion of the German...

14 Syys 202222min

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