How Did Rome Lead To The Rise Of Christianity

Rome along with the Latin Christian West was always distant and in conflict with the Christian World of the East, even before the adoption Christianity as the official religion of the empire. Following the establishment of two separate sections, with separate capitals, the Roman Empire acknowledged that they were two different worlds, especially after the decline of Rome and the rise of Constantinople by the turn of the 4th century. Emperor Constantine did his best to ensure its supremacy and unity under his command in particular by way of the results of the Council of Nicaea (325), the first of its kind, founding a uniform doctrine and church. Two things should be noted: a) That a large portion of this ecumenical council was dedicated not just to spell out one uniform doctrine the Nicene Creed but to fight and suppress the considerable influence of Arianism (Christ as a created human, not of divine nature), one of the many so-called Eastern controversies between 250 and 336, and b) That the Bishop of Rome, Pope Sylvester I, avoided attending, sending his legates instead. …show more content…
Very different approaches and rituals influenced their own visions of Christianity as reflected in the first seven ecumenical councils like Ephesus (431), centered on the Nestorian schism and Chalcedon (451), the nature of Christ being either human or divine and making Constantinople the second holy see, while Rome remained as previously stated, distant, different, and challenging. This latter trend was reinforced parallel to Rome’s rise after the 8th century and the decline of Byzantium and its capital Constantinople, something that in the eyes of the Popes gave them more freedom from and leverage in their differences and clashes with Byzantine