I. Church History – II. Law – III. Practical Theology – IV. Systematic Theology
I. Church History
1. Early Church
The Roman state (Roman Empire) tolerated philosophical atheism and a multitude of cults that flooded in from its conquered territories, but it refused to tolerate rejection of the cult of the official gods (di publici populi Romani), on which the security of the state was believed to depend. Since Christians refused to participate …