Triumph Of Christianity Analysis

And while trust in human reason and hope for happiness in this world faded during the last centuries of the Roman Empire, a new view of the world began to establish its roots - Christianity. This view had emphasized escape from the world of coercion and a growing connection with higher existence. In response to the decline of Hellenism, Christianity offered a reason worth living to the spiritually disappointed polytheistic followers and the Greco-Roman world: hope in personal immortality. Triumph of Christianity marked a break with classical antiquity and a new stage in the evolution of the West because there was a fundamental difference between the classical and the Christian understanding of God, the individual and the purpose of life.
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People were getting used to Christians and many people already knew about them. By the third century Christian literature has been directed against heresy and paganism, and in favor of Christian thought, which is particularly emphasized by the Christian school of Alexandria and its famous teacher Origen, which connects the lines of early Christian period to the new spirit that is manifested in the Church. Persecutions were run by the emperors Valerian and Aurelian as well, but the greatest persecution of Christianity was experienced during Diocletian and his co-ruler and associates (284-311), particularly Galerius. However, Christianity has spread so much by Diocletian’s time that Christians already existed at his court. Finally, the Emperor Constantine the Great brings freedom to Christianity with the Edict of Milan in 313. He was one of the most important personalities of his time, and undoubtedly in Christianity. He was a Christian, probably Arian. He transferred the center of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople and influenced the development of Christianity in that period.