Sentences with phrase «early fourth century»

A funerary inscription found in present - day Tunisia honors a Roman provincial gentleman who lived in the third to early fourth century A.D.: «That distinguished physician Marcellus lies here.

In the early fourth century, when Constantine embraced and sanctioned Christianity, the believers went from suffering servants who were persecuted to those who found themselves living in comfort and security.

The first illuminates the Greek understanding of the virtue of poverty, running mainly from Hesiod to Aristotle, though concentrating on the late fifth and early fourth centuries» historical, comedic, and philosophical writings; the second illuminates this understanding's continuation in Diogenes and Cynical thought in general.

Desmond's goal is to read the Cynic emphasis on poverty as part of the classical tradition, precisely as part of the cultural thinking of the late fifth and early fourth centuries that praises poverty.

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

It is typical if, in so behaving, Williams believed himself to be guided by a custom outlawed by the Church in the early fourth century.

When Constantine legalized Christianity in the early fourth century, some began to see an almost godlike authority in the state.

The Fathers who sought to ward off Arianism in the early fourth century discovered this to their chagrin.

Consider the Arian Controversy (Arius and Athenasius), which was a critical issue in the early fourth century.

Eusebius the church historian of the early church (early fourth century) in his Ecclesiastical history mentions that Pantaneus, the first known head of the catechetical school in Alexandria, visited India about AD 180.

By the end of the third century or early fourth century, the Indian church entered into some sort of ecclesiastical relationship with the Persian church.

St. Nicholas was the bishop of Myra in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) and lived through the brutal Diocletian persecutions of the early fourth century.

In the early fourth century, Empress Helena journeyed to Palestine and, guided by the Holy Spirit, discovered the sites of the true cross and the tomb of Christ.

The early fourth century CE saw a tectonic shift in the fortunes of the oppressed but ever growing Christian community: The emperor Constantine handed over the reins of religious leadership in his empire to the church.

However understandable supersessionism may be as a response to the pressures brought to bear on the church from the late first through the early fourth century, it should be dropped.

Christians have had problems reconciling the two genealogies since at least the early fourth century.

Madison was presumably dating the legal establishment of Christianity to the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, in the early fourth century, that is, «almost fifteen centuries» earlier.

The Nicean Council was in the early fourth century, not 400.

Constantine «adopted» the Christian cult in the early fourth century.