from Part III - Religious Violence in Late Antiquity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
Most Christians in Late Antiquity understood imperially sanctioned violence against the earliest Christians as the unjustified persecution of martyrs by an empire that was at odds with God.1 Nevertheless, Christians in positions of power after the rise of the Emperor Constantine (306–37) often explained imperially sanctioned violence against their religious opponents as the justified suppression of heresy, a narrative that complicated the position of Christians who rejected imperial orthodoxy, such as those who denounced the legitimacy of the Council of Chalcedon after 451.
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