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| | Edict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This law declared that if a merchant's cloth was not found to be satisfactory, on three separate occasions; then, he was to be tied to a post, with the cloth attached to him. | | | It revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598) and ordered the destruction of Huguenot churches. | | | It forbade the secularization of land and property belonging to the Catholic Church. |
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| | d. Christians and Pagans. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History |
| | Constantine's sons, especially Constantius, were fervent Arians, and under them the cults of traditional Roman religion suffered from lack of government support, confiscation of land, and official indifference to organized Christian attacks, as well as from the actual closings of temples. | | | It was the growing numbers of powerful men who were entering the higher orders of the Church that effected a change. | | | Christian letters were continued in Greek by such men as Eusebius of Caesarea (260–340), who among other things established the tradition of Christian chronography, and by the theologian Gregory of Nazianzus (329–89). |
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| | Toleration |
| | Taylor's important work on toleration was the Liberty of prophesying (1647), but he also wrote a number of very popular devotional works such as The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (1650), and The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (1651). | | | Increasingly, the role of government was perceived as wholly secular and civil allegiance as separate from religious opinion. | | | The Toleration Act of May 1689 granted a limited toleration to Presbyterians, Independents Baptists, and Quakers; - they could worship freely but were excluded from public office. |
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http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/367/367-093.htm
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| | History of the Christian Church, Schaff, 1910 edition with power search. |
| | His toleration, therefore, was neither that of genuine humanity, nor that of religious indifferentism, but a hypocritical mask for a fanatical love of heathenism and a bitter hatred of Christianity. | | | In this notable edict, however, we should look in vain for the modern Protestant and Anglo-American theory of religious liberty as one of the universal and inalienable rights of man. Sundry voices, it is true, in the Christian church itself, at that time, as before and after, declared against all compulsion in religion. | | | The last glimmer of life in the old religion was its pitiable prayer for toleration and its lamentation over the ruin of the empire. |
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http://www.bible.ca/history/philip-schaff/3_ch01.htm
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| | In October of 1906, the Edict of Tolerance was once again modified to provide for the Church to conduct missions to convert people of other faiths to Orthodoxy. | | | The Edict of Toleration passed in April of 1905, one of the results of the 1905 Revolution, guaranteed basic religious freedom and a better standing for those other religions. | | | After the Edict of Tolerance, 300,000 officially left the Russian Orthodox Church for other faiths (250,000 joined the Catholic Church); however many others may have unofficially changed their creed without public registration. |
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http://www.acm.vt.edu/~wpreissn/courses/rus2734/edict.detail.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Peace of the Church |
| | This is the designation usually applied to the condition of the Church after the publication at Milan in 313 by Emperor Constantine of an edict of toleration by which the Christians were accorded complete liberty to practise their religion without molestation. | | | The failure of Diocletian (284-305) and his colleagues in the last and bloodiest persecution to shake the resolution of the Christians or to annihilate the Church left no course open to prudent statesmen but to recognize the inevitable and to abandon the old concept of government, the union of civil power and paganism. | | | Complete amnesty and freedom were attained two years later when Emperor Constantine, after defeating Maxentius, published early in 313 with his colleague Licinius the famous Edict of Milan by which Christians were guaranteed the fullest liberty in the practice of their religion. |
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| | Constantine's toleration of the Christian religion stemmed from an incident before a crucial battle; he had a dream and saw a symbol in the sky which he believed came from the Christian god. | | | The edict also restored their places of worship and status among the world's religions. | | | The edict proclaimed that everyone would have the opportunity to worship as he pleases and their property taken under persecution be returned. |
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http://www.romanwomen.blogspot.com
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| | Denial of Equal Rights to Atheists |
| | Toleration is thus to be expressly distinguished from religious liberty for all, which negatives a union of Church and State, and expressly denies authority to enforce any religious observance. | | | In fact at no time during the history of the Colony was there toleration for any except Trinitarian Christians, with misery for non-conformists, and no cessation from religious strife. | | | There is a remarkable parallel between Hartogensis' distinction between "toleration" and "liberty" and that drawn by the modern "religious right." See Chalcedon Position Paper No. 31, "Religious Liberty vs. Religious Toleration," reprinted in Roots of Reconstruction, pp. |
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http://members.aol.com/Endthewall/hartogensis00.htm
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| | Russian Church |
| | But after Tsar Nicholas II issued his edict of religious toleration, a few small communities of Greek Catholics were formed. |
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http://www.faswebdesign.com/ECPA/Byzantine/Russian.html
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| | French Wars of Religion : Wars of Religion |
| | The essential first step in this was the negotiation of the Edict of Nantes, which, rather than being a kind of genuine toleration, was in fact a kind of permanent truce between the religions, with guarantees for both sides. | | | Although she was a sincere Roman Catholic, she was prepared to deal favourably with the Huguenot House of Bourbon in order to have a counterweight against the overmighty House of Guise. | | | The French Wars of Religion were a series of conflicts fought between the Catholic League[?] and the Huguenots from the middle of the sixteenth century to the Edict of Nantes in 1598. |
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http://www.termsdefined.net/wa/wars-of-religion.html
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| | State Church Of The Roman Empire |
| | Galerius issued an edict shortly before his death in which he explained the persecution and then granted tolerance to the Christian religion. | | | Although the Edict of 380 is usually omitted or barely mentioned or glossed over, it was one of the most significant pronouncements in Western history, politically and religiously, because it was (and is) so thoroughly enforced. | | | Although the Edict of Milan made it clear that all religions should be respected, the strongest provisions dramatically upgraded the social status of Christians. |
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http://www.bswett.com/1998-05Church300.html
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| | CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, CHAPTERS III, IV & V |
| | (313 A,D.) Edict of Constantine and Licinius for the restoration of the Church. | | | The edict gives a long confession of faith followed by an account of the miracle and mention of the churches he has built. | | | Ordering that the Catholic clergy be free from public service, that they might not be disturbed in their worship of God. |
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| | Advised by l'Hospital The King issued the Edict of Fontainbleau in April 1561, forbidding injury or denounciation of anyone on matters of faith or provocation of anyone on account of their religion, prohibiting use of "papist" or "Huguenot" epithets and all offenses against property. | | | When one high noble family openly held services in their house in defiance of the edict of July, Catholic priests urged parishioners to arm in defence of their churches from heretics. | | | In late December 1561 came a clash between Huguenots worshipping in the faubourg of Saint-Marcel, and Catholics in the neighboring church of Saint-Medard. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/jonhays/hugvscath.htm
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| | The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XVI |
| | It was enacted that their churches, in all the provinces of the empire, should be demolished to their foundations; and the punishment of death was denounced against all who should presume to hold any secret assemblies for the purpose of religious worship. | | | After taking such effectual measures to abolish the worship and to dissolve the government of the Christians, it was thought necessary to subject to the most intolerable hardships the condition of those perverse individuals who should still reject the religion of nature, of Rome, and of their ancestors. | | | The accession of Gallienus, which increased the calamities of the empire, restored peace to the church; and the Christians obtained the free exercise of their religion by an edict addressed to the bishops, and conceived in such terms as seemed to acknowledge their office and public character. |
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http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap16.htm
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| | Although the polemical heat was still very high at this point, in certain ways the tone was set for a new kind of discourse about religions difference which would in the eighteenth century displace "truth" with "opinion" as the preferred philosophical category of religious reference. | | | Virtually no one went so far as to argue that salvation might be found in any religion (although Usbek comes close): polemically speaking, such a public denial of the exclusive truth claims of the Church would have been disastrous policy. | | | Here it was the Church's honor, as it was to be the army's in the 1890s, that was pitted against truth; if Calas was to be rehabilitated, there was no way such an outcome could fail to discredit the Church. |
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http://www.duke.edu/~pstewart/toleration.htm
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| | CHRISTIANCOINS.HTML |
| | In 313 the Edict of Milian was proclaimed and universal Christianity became the state religion. | | | However, Justin's reign was marked by factional disputes with provincial governors and by religious persecution of the Monophysites, a heretical sect that believed Jesus Christ had only a divine nature see Monophysitism. | | | On June 5, 313, he had issued an edict granting toleration to the Christians and restoring church property. |
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http://www.ancientbiblecoins.com/christiancoins.html
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| | The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie |
| | Nevertheless, as if they were assembled in peaceful times, and under the shadow of law, they go on day by day, with calm dignity and serene power, planting the foundations of the House of God in their native land. | | | It was in the midst of this persecution that the first congregations of the Reformed Church in France were settled with pastors, and began to be governed by a regular discipline. | | | No mace or symbol of authority traces the table round which the deputies of the Churches are gathered; no robes of office dignify their persons; on the contrary, royal edicts have proclaimed them outlaws, and the persecutor is on their track. |
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http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/History.Protestant.v2.b17.html
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| | The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XXI |
| | After the edict of toleration had restored peace and leisure to the Christians, the Trinitarian controversy was revived in the ancient seat of Platonism, the learned, the opulent, the tumultuous city of Alexandria; and the flame of religious discord was rapidly communicated from the schools to the clergy, the people, the provinces, and the East. | | | Some of the penal regulations were copied from the edicts of Diocletian; and this method of conversion was applauded by the same bishops who had felt the hand of oppression, and had pleaded for the rights of humanity. | | | But as those opposite extremes seemed to overthrow the foundations either of natural or revealed religion, they mutually agreed to qualify the rigour of their principles, and to disavow the just, but invidious, consequences which might be urged by their antagonists. |
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| | Documents from the History of Christianity |
| | that imperial edicts were published everywhere, commanding that the churches be levelled to the ground and the Scriptures be destroyed by fire, and ordering that those who held places of honor be degraded, and that they of Caesar’s household, if they persisted in the profession of Christianity, be deprived of freedom. | | | But not long after, other decrees were issued, commanding that all the rulers of the churches in every place be thrown into prison, and afterwards by every means be compelled to sacrifice to the pagan gods. | | | Certain it is that for us and our Empire the only defence is in the favour of the God of heaven; and to deserve it our first care is to support the Christian faith and its venerable religion. |
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http://calvarychapel.com/ccbcgermany/histdoc03.htm
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| | Frederick II (1215 - 1250) |
| | Although such statements may have startled people, his own subjects were more directly affected by his policy of religious toleration (except for heretics) within his realms. | | | The Church was naturally incensed by this insult to the One True Faith, by Frederick was willing to oppose the Church in almost anything. | | | He was to control Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth and other centers of Christian worship and was to be recognized as king of Jerusalem The city itself would enjoy religious toleration for Muslims, Christians and Jews. |
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http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/frederick_ii.html
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| | Buddhism in a Nutshell |
| | His message of Peace and Tolerance was welcomed by all with indescribable joy and was of eternal benefit to every one who had the fortune to hear and practice it. | | | This tolerance the Buddha extended to men, women and all living beings. | | | The Buddha was so tolerant that He did not even exercise His power to give commandments to His lay followers. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/buddhism_in_a_nutshell.htm
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| | Chapter 2: Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain During the Forth Century |
| | A later edict of this same Arian emperor commanded the closing of all pagan temples, and those found guilty of offering sacrifices were to be put to death. | | | The civil authorities of the fourth century believed that magic and divination could be used for harmful purposes and that a person might use the information obtained from a magician or diviner to foster rebellion. | | | The property which had been taken from the Christians was now restored to them; they were able to build churches and the clergy received many of the privileges which the pagan priests enjoyed. |
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http://libro.uca.edu/mckenna/pagan2.htm
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| | The History of Protestantism - Volume First - Book Ninth - History of Protestantism From the Diet of Worms, 1521, to ... |
| | The execution of the emperor's edict against Luther, with which they had been charged, must lie over till they had found means of compelling Soliman and his hordes to return to their own land. | | | It could not repeal the edict, and it dared not enforce it, The princes hit upon a clever device for silencing the Pope who was pushing them on, and appeasing the people who were holding them back. | | | Now, not only do they refuse to execute that edict, but they decree that the pure Gospel shall be preached. |
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| | Deep Background #4: The Edict of Tolerance |
| | He was prepared to grant religious minorities religious toleration -- providing they were a large enough group. | | | No synagogues were to be allowed, and no religious books could be printed (these had to come from Bohemia as before). | | | The 1782 edict contained the following stipulations, according to Prof. |
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http://www.goletapublishing.com/jstamps/0102deep.htm
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| | Holier Than Thou - Huguenots |
| | The Edict of Nantes was a promise of religious toleration. | | | Persecution followed and brought numbers to England as refugees during Tudor times, and the Crypt of Cantebury Cathedral was assigned to them as a place of worship in 1550. | | | Nevertheless, Protestantism continued to spread and grow, and about 1555 the first Huguenot church was founded in a home in Paris based upon the teachings of John Calvin. |
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| | He says Constantine may have wanted the power of the Christian God on his side, but he continued to take part in pagan rites, refused to receive the instruction of bishops, and was not technically a believer because he wasn't baptized. | | | He was not successful at the second, since his own assistant emperor, Galerius, persuaded him that the way to religious unity was to suppress the Christian movement (edict of 303). | | | He won the battle, and attributed his victory of the power of Christ. |
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| | First Universalist Church |
| | Rather than discarding the religion of their day, they redefined it—discovering and developing their own understandings and their own traditions—so that theirs might indeed be a living faith, a faith that could sustain them through the centuries. | | | In 1568 he called the gathering or Diet of Torda, where is minister, Francis David, declared the edict of Religious Toleration and Religious Tolerance. | | | It’s easy to see why the people of the Transylvanian churches value their relationships with their North American partners, but to put it in the most crass terms possible, “what’s in it for us?” The Rev. Sandor Varga, who serves two congregations in |
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http://members.aol.com/YarmouthUU/Sermon-031702.htm
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| | The Constantine Revolution |
| | Christians would now enjoy a freedom they had never officially known and what was no doubt even more astounding was that the Christians would enjoy the favor of the emperor above that of the more popular pagan religions. | | | The event would mark a major change, not only to the recently persecuted church, but also to the world. | | | The relation between church and state was obviously changed drastically by the Constantine revolution - and even more so by the compulsory edict of Theodosius in 379 A.D. Almost immediately we see the office of bishop arises into political power and social status. |
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| | HWC, The Reformation in France |
| | Tens of thousands died for their faith before the Huguenots at last won an edict of toleration that granted them peace for a time. | | | During the Wars of Religion, the Huguenots came close to controlling the crown, then were nearly crushed. | | | The Wars of Religion created a deep division within French society. |
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| | UUs & the News: Ahead of the Wave Bill Sinkford's words |
| | But secondly, I was reminded that more than four hundred years ago, King John Sigismund of Transylvania, the only Unitarian king in history, issued an edict of religious toleration that permitted the people of his kingdom to follow whatever religion they wished. | | | In 16th Century Europe, torn by religious warfare, this liberty, this separation of state from church, was absolutely unique. | | | So even then, as Unitarian belief was emerging from the cauldron of the Reformation, we find support among our ancestors for religious freedom. |
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| | CATHOLIC DIOCESES IN RUSSIA |
| | Edict of Toleration of Nicholas II The civil authorities, and especially the Czar, in incorporating the Orthodox church into the structure of the State, defined relations between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. | | | As a consequence, since the creation of the Holy Synod to replace the Patriarchate of Moscow, that was suppressed in 1720, the Orthodox Church had been regarded as the State Church. | | | Indeed, with the Edict of Toleration of Nicholas II of 28 April 1905, the basic criteria were formulated to regulate relations between the two Churches in the Russian Empire. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/CATHRUSS.HTM
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| | Monotheism: The Christian Holy Bible |
| | The council of Nicea was formed in 324ce by the Emperor Constantine chose in 382ce only four of the gospels for this reason: "There were four winds, four points of the compass, four corners of the temple" and ordered the remaining ones to be destroyed by the Roman Empire. | | | In 313ce Constantine published the "Edict of Toleration" which made Christianity a legal and official religion within the roman empire. |
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http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/tb.html
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| | Rome and Christianity: Toleration and The Edict of Galerius |
| | The Edict of Galerius, of 311, explained that as a consequence of the persecutions the Christians neither fulfilled their cult obligations to the official gods nor worshiped their own God in proper form. | | | The curious term divinitas was reconcilable with official polytheism and the recognition of the Summus Deus of the empire religion, and at the same time it sounded monotheistic enough to make Christians happy. | | | The persistence and survival of the Christians under violent persecutions apparently convinced the regents Galerius, Licinius, and Constantinus that the Christian God was powerful enough to protect his followers in adversity; that he was a reality that should be treated with caution. |
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http://www.fritzwagner.com/ev/rome4_toleration_of_christianity.html
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| | Akbar |
| | Akbar had a great interest in all religions and was known for his religious tolerance and justice. | | | At Fatehpur Sikri he organized a discours among religious scholars, priests, and mystics after which he issued his remarkable 'Edict of Toleration for all religions'. | | | Free from prejudices and tolerant to men of other beliefs he was able to weld the conflicting elements of his kingdom into a strong and prosperous whole. |
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http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/akbar.html
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| | The edict put Christianity and paganism on a par with one another, and although the next emperor, Julian the Apostate, sought to re-establish paganism, by the end of the 4th century the church that was called "Christian" had become the state religion of Rome. | | | Even after Christianity became the prevailing religion, it seemed impossible to root out the practice of using pagan charms. | | | If one is a true Christian in a pagan empire, one does not deny his Lord and Saviour even if it means martyrdom. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/FF22.html
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| | Edict of Diocletian |
| | Galerius had instigated the Great Persecution in AD 303 and ended it in AD 311, when, having contracted a particularly loathsome disease, he sought to appease the Christian god. | | | Soon afterwards other decrees arrived in rapid succession, ordering that the presidents of the churches in every place should all be first committed to prison and then coerced by every possible means into offering sacrifice." | | | Consequently, when we issued an order to the effect that they were to go back to the practices established by the ancients, many of them found themselves in great danger, and many were proceeded against and punished with death in many forms. |
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http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/encyclopaedia_romana/hispania/diocletian.html
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| | And, the Edict of Toleration was signed in 1844, officially permitting the Jewish people to return to the Holy Land for the first time since they were banished by the Romans in the first century. | | | (Events following from this Edict led to the creation of the modern State of Israel and continue to be the primary evidence that the prophecies of the Bible are being fulfilled in our modern age.) | | | The evidence was so clear to the Christians of the time that a great movement of expectation, unparalleled before or since, arose among Christian scholars and the Christian community. |
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| | War and military participation |
| | This edict declared the Christian religion to be religio licita (a permitted cult), a status it had not had before. | | | In less than a hundred years after the Edict of Milan, nearly all of the other 90 percent had been "converted." The church believed that this rapid growth was a sure sign of God's approval. | | | CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES CHANGE: 313 A.D. AD - When Constantine began changing Christian teachings and practices |
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http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/war.htm
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| | Huguenot History |
| | The Edict of Nantes, signed by Henry IV on 13 April 1598, ended the French Wars of Religion. | | | The Huguenots were allowed free exercise of their religion in 20 specified towns in France. | | | The Massacre of St. Bartholomew in which thousands of Huguenots were killed took place on 24 August 1575. |
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| | April 30: Dying Emperor Galerius issues edict of toleration |
| | Galerius added that "...it should be the duty of the Christians, in view of our clemency [mercy], to pray to their god for our welfare, for that of the Empire, and for their own, so that the Empire may remain intact in all its parts, and that they themselves may live safely in their habitations." | | | Galerius was the son of a Greek shepherd who became a Roman soldier. | | | He seems to have seen his illness as a judgment from the Christian God. |
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http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/DAILYF/2003/04/daily-04-30-2003.shtml
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| | In the century between the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and the Edict of Toleration in 1787, Protestantism was legally repressed in France, its practitioners harrassed and forced to convert. | | | Given this history of persecution, the nineteenth century should have been a “golden age” for French Protestants, free at last to practice their religion openly and build institutional structures, while enjoying an unprecedented influence in government affairs, especially during the July Monarchy, when several Protestants gained high national office. |
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| | The Edict of Milan, complete text in English (Constantine, 313 A.D.) |
| | Therefore, your Worship should know that it has pleased us to remove all conditions whatsoever, which were in the rescripts formerly given to you officially, concerning the Christians and now any one of these who wishes to observe Christian religion may do so freely and openly, without molestation. | | | The Bible: The Book That Bridges the Millennia | | | This is an English translation of the edict. |
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| | SKYLARK'S ACADIAN HOMELAND PAGE |
| | The Edict of Nantes (1598) said that Catholicism was the official religion of France, but Huguenots were allowed to worship in their own castles and a few other places. | | | The following year after Jean Baptiste dit LeBreton Prejean was born, (1561) civil war broke out in over these religious differences between the Catholic church and the Huguenots. | | | When the Edict of Toleration was revoked in 1685, Matthieu Duon had been married for 35 years, when the renewed storm of persecution that ensued, must have been of concern to he and his family, living in St. Nizier. |
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| | Bolshevik Persecution of the Catholic Church |
| | This law allowed the Orthodox to leave their religion without penalties and loss of rights, permitted the organization of a Russian Catholic Church and allowed the reopening of closed churches. | | | Therefore, the Catholic Church in Russia took an optimistic view of the Provisional Government, which came into power after the February 1917 revolution, because it eliminated restrictions formerly imposed on the Roman Catholic Church and laity in Russia <1> | | | However, this edict did not provide for free communication between the bishops and Rome, a bishop's right to educate his clergy, or diocesan rule according to canon law. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Edict of Milan |
| | The "Edict of Milan" (313 AD) declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral with regard to religious worship, officially ending all government-sanctioned persecution especially of Christianity. | | | The actual edicts have not been retrieved inscribed upon stone, but quoted at length in a historical work with a theme of divine retribution, by the Church Father Lactantius, De mortibus persecutionibus ("Deaths of the persecutors") in chapters 35 and 48. | | | By its provisions, the Christians, who had "followed such a caprice and had fallen into such a folly that they would not obey the institutes of antiquity", were granted an indulgence. |
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| | Why I Left the Roman Catholic Church--by James Beller |
| | And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. | | | The invisible union of churches was now visible and Constantine (for a season) became the head of the church. | | | But by 313 A.D., the emperor Constantine had issued the edict of toleration and Christianity (the states's version) became the religion of the state. |
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| | HILARIUS - LoveToKnow Article on HILARIUS |
| | In 465 he held at Rome a council which put a stop to some abuses, particularly to that of bishops appointing their own successors. | | | His pontificate was also marked by a successful encroachment of the papal authority on the metropolitan rights of the French and Spanish hierarchy, and by a resistance to the toleration edict of Anthemius, which ultimately caused it to be recalled, Hilarius died on the I7th of November 467, and was succeeded by Simplicius. |
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| | Middle Architecture |
| | Emperor Constantine passed the Edict of Toleration in 313, allowing especially the Christian faith to spread. | | | Constantine began a large church building program after moving the capitol to Byzantine which was renamed Constantinople. |
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http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/art_history_lessons/ma/architecture.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Caius Valerius Daja Maximinus |
| | The edicts of the deceased emperor were cancelled, and decrees favourable to the Christians were now promulgated in the East. | | | Licinius harassing him incessantly, published an edict of toleration for the Christians of Nicomedia so that Maximinus was obliged to withdraw to the Taurus where he entrenched himself in the passes. | | | When Constantine and Licinius published the edict of toleration for the Christians at Milan in 312, and Maximinus was asked to promulgate it in his part of the empire, he did so, because he saw clearly that it was directed against his anti-Christian policy. |
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| | Chapter Reigns Of Jovian And Valentinian, Division Of The Empire. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman ... |
| | The consternation of the Pagan world was dispelled by a wise and gracious edict of toleration; in which Jovian explicitly declared, that although he should severely punish the sacrilegious rites of magic, his subjects might exercise, with freedom and safety, the ceremonies of the ancient worship. | | | Themistius expatiates on the clemency of the Divine Nature, the facility of human error, the rights of conscience, and the independence of the mind; and, with some eloquence, inculcates the principles of philosophical toleration; whose aid Superstition herself, in the hour of her distress, is not ashamed to implore. | | | In the space of seven months, the Roman troops, who were now returned to Antioch, had performed a march of fifteen hundred miles; in which they had endured all the hardships of war, of famine, and of climate. |
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