Second, they sicced the Emperor on heretics, dishing out exactly what they suffered years earlier. Tertulian’s Trinity doctrine was basically the same as Nicea, he says he was in the minority but that could have been his Western perceptive. Kōnstantînos; 27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from 306 to 337. And, thanks to the popularity of Voltaire’s work across Europe, his quip about this miraculous selection of books at Nicaea has given rise to the whole myth. iii, p. 29) and official to all presbyters sermonizing in the Roman Empire. “Again, weren’t the Gospels originally written in the 2nd century? That's all well and good, but when do you expect to wrap it all into a book? We have to remember that the disciples were probably dispersed at a very early time with no fixed formulation on Christian beliefs. Some online detective work by Roger Pearse and others has untangled the story of this anecdote, and it appears Voltaire was working from an appendix to the Jesuit scholar Philippe Labbé’s Sanctissima concilia (1671), which is the “supplement” mentioned in the quote above. With his instructions fulfilled, Constantine then decreed that the New Testimonies would thereafter be called the "word of the Roman Savior God" (Life of Constantine, vol. At Nicea Constantine had 300 versions of the Bible burnt, thus > legitimising and patronizing only the Paulic heresy. “This began to be alarming. Ignatius of Antioch quotes from gMatt, gLuke and Acts and he died c. 110 AD. It is believed by many that it was he who eliminated a large number of other texts penned by the Gnostics and established the New Testament Canon to be considered as Christian Scripture along with the Old Testament. “Getting history right is crucial, and noone – neither the religious nor the irreligious – should get a free ride when it comes to instrumentalising the past. he did not change the words but what books were let in and out. Another way of supporting the theory that at least one of the Gospels was written in the second century is by looking at what it actually says. It seems that it can be traced to a quip made by Voltaire in reference to a miracle story of no historical value. In 313, Constantine and Licinius issued … it's interesting, too, how close it is to "Baptist history"–Constantine and his dynasty ruined Christianity by making it a capital-C state Church and persecuted all these True Christians ever since (the Baptists naturally say they're the original, Apostolic Christianity, so their absence before the 16th century is proof of their repression, not of total nonexistence). It's interesting just how much New Atheist bad history is actually just a repackaging of Protestant historiographical tropes. It also explicitly rejects several books on the grounds that they are recent and written by fringe, “heretical” groups and it specifically singles out works by the Gnostic leader Valentius and by Marcion and his followers. I’m an atheist because I find no evidence for any gods, Christian or otherwise. A manuscript called the Muratorian Canon dates to sometime in the late second century AD and was discovered in a library in Milan in the eighteenth century. A vast majority of atheists, if they believed what is written here, if they did not believe that Constantine created the Bible, that Jesus wasn’t a “myth”, and that no person believed that Jesus rose from the dead, until they aggrandized his story several decades and centuries later, there would be almost no atheists in America. a hack …. Thanks Tim for some good information. They are just fanatics who post whatever tickles their emotional and irrational prejudices. Power corrupts and tends to draw people in who want the power without the ideology, and that is certainly true (I believe) of christianity through 17 centuries of "Christendom", but also true of socialism (e.g. The story of early Christianity is a story of struggle, persecution and martyrdom, often at the hands of the ruling government. — Positief Atheïsme (@positiefatheism) March 9, 2018 Constantine’s decision to cease the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was a turning point for early Christianity, sometimes referred to as the Triumph of the Church, the Peace of the Church, or the Constantinian Shift. He is the author of all the teachings here, and all materials are available free of charge! The obvious question to ask, therefore, is why the hell “Philosophical Atheism” posted this laughable junk? Any given isolated Christian community may well have known of some of them but not others. Also, given the growing popularity of the various Jesus cults, what other options were realistic? It certainly formed a key plot element in the schlock pseudo historical thriller The Da Vinci Code (2003) and in its film adaptation in 2006. By the early second century Christianity had a similar problem, with a wide range of texts, letters and gospels in circulation all claiming to be authentic works of the first generation of Christians. Constantine. However, this fact is highly controversial. A synod convened in Rome by Pope Damasus in 382 AD also considered the question of the canon and, with the help of the great multi-lingual scholar Jerome, settled on the same twenty-seven books set out by Athanasius. Constantine's decision to cease the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was a turning point for early Christianity, sometimes referred to as the Triumph of the Church, the Peace of the Church or the Constantinian shift.In 313, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan decriminalizing Christian worship. Constantine claimed to have had a vision on the way to Rome, during the night before battle. Required fields are marked *. Still what people say about Nicea does feel much more accurate when said about Ephesus or the 5th Council. Fact Checking Memes? C aesar Augustus, more commonly referred to as Constantine the Great, in A.D. 321-325, established a new and uniquely stylized solar planetary calendar. In a most providential twist of events, Roman Emperor Constantine a few years later, enlisted the help of Eusebius, to create 50 copies in codex form, of the entire Bible. There were plenty of Pre-Nicene references to Jesus being Divine, and even already debate about “Modalism”. a hack …. But no, the form that won out in the end was not the product of “more literal interpreters” and that form of Christianity had become predominant long before they “got in bed with the Roman state”, which is why it was the form adopted by Constantine when he converted. Those who doubt he saw some kind of vision and must have been lying also don't seem to realise that people in the ancient world were constantly on the lookout for signs and omens and so "saw" all kinds of things that they invested with divine significance. Nicaea was not a big issue for most of the Church; of the 1800 bishops invited, between 200 and 300 attended and only six were from the western Church (Ossius of Cordova was there as Constantine’s chief adviser on Christian matters, but Sylvester of Rome did not attend, sending two priests instead). Christianity “started out” as a Jewish sect focused on the idea that Jesus was the Messiah. Of course there is the problem that Constantine spoke Latin since he rule the Roman Empire. Marcion decided that there were actually two Gods – the evil one who had misled the Jews and the good one revealed by Jesus. “We have at this day certain most authentic ecclesiastical writers of the times, as Clemens Romanus, Barnabas, Hermas, Ignatius, and Polycarp, who wrote in the order wherein I have named them, and after all the writers of the New Testament. Just adding my 2c to say I can't wait for the book. I’ve never believed. I was reading the comments on this article, and as one of them mentions the confrontation between Emperor Theodosius and Ambrosius of Milan, I wanted to ask what you think about this episode? Very rare indeed. FringePop321 Chances are good that you know there were other gospels—accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus—that never made it into the Bible. Justin was generally writing for a non-Christian audience, so he generally used the long established technical term for works memorialising the deeds and sayings of great teachers (ἀπομνημονεύματα, memoirs), rather than the purely Christian term for books about the sayings and deeds of Jesus (εὐαγγέλιον, gospel). The "hijacking" idea makes sense only to people who believe there is no truth. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Why not? The message of the texts from 200 AD is the same as those from 1200 AD. But it seems the baseless origins and the crackpot supporters of this silly idea don’t matter to the guys at “Philosophical Atheism”. He refers several times to “the memoirs (ἀπομνημονεύματα) of the apostles” and in one place makes it explicit that these are the gospels, referring to “the memoirs (ἀπομνημονεύματα again) which are also called gospels” (Apology LXVI.3). It’s a pity this nice method has fallen into disuse nowadays.”, Also, the French text should probably read thus: “…que les Pères, étant fort embarrassés…”. But it seems fact checking is not high on the priority list of the so-called rationalists over at “Philosophical Atheism”. One of the most enduring myths today about the Council of Nicaea is that the council members voted on which books to include in the Bible. No modern scholar accepts a second century date for the gospels. Alexandria was a important melting pot in that. So what if Constantine has cynical purposes? I am wondering how you can be so confident of the effect of something that didn’t happen? His teachings made the Bible clear and easy to understand, and impacted millions of lives. FringePop321 Chances are good that you know there were other gospels—accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus—that never made it into the Bible. There he began to develop his own Christian theology; one which was quite different to that of his father and of the Christian community in Rome. Truth, or what is believed to be the truth, has always been paramount to most people. “As for the “memoirs of the apostles” he mentions, well, we don’t really know what he meant by that”. Why would any non-ideologue care enough to get into politics. “Simple – because it’s anti-Christian.” Possibly this is a source of some confusion. This is something I see over and over again with people who have great confidence in their private theories about fringe ideas despite not actually knowing what the hell they’re talking about. I believe you have causation reversed here. What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?”. This is the basis of the claim that “Constantine and his bishops voted a bunch of works as the Word of God (325 AD)”. In the year 553 A.D., 165 Church officials condemned reincarnation. How's the book going? This work became available in western Europe in the early seventeenth century and so seems to be where whole story came from. 11 also produces mud. Born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea (now Niš, Serbia), he was the son of Flavius Constantius, an Illyrian army officer who became one of the four emperors of the Tetrarchy. In Czech Republic: Literature …and diplomat, Cyril (originally named Constantine), and his brother Methodius (see Saints Cyril and Methodius).The brothers translated the greater part of the Bible and the essential liturgical texts into what must have been a Slavonic literary language of Cyril’s devising, based on the Macedonian-Slavonic vernacular of his native Salonika… Marcion tried to get his radical reassessment of Christianity and his canon accepted by calling a council of the Christian community in Rome. It seems that the challenge posed by Marcion and other dissident groups caused the early Christians to determine which books were scriptural and which were not. — Positief Atheïsme (@positiefatheism) March 9, 2018 Thanks for your good work on this myth (and others too) about Christianity. So it appears to have found its way via its publication by the Lutheran theologian Johannes Pappus (1549-1610) to Philippe Labbé’s appendix and thus to Voltaire. The key purpose of the Council, however, was the resolution of the Arian Controversy over the status of Jesus as “God the Son” in relation to “God the Father” in the doctrine of the Trinity. Compre Christmas, Constantine, and the Bible (English Edition) de Day, Roger na Amazon.com.br. These claims are essential to the plot in The Da Vinci Code because the novel claims that the so-called "Gnostic gospels" were the original Christian documents and Constantine replaced them with the New Testament.. While historians are yet to have a solid evidence of Constantine's decision of choosing… Unfortunately Jerome is simply noting that Judith was considered scriptural in that it was referred to in the deliberations of the Council. I have no idea what any of that rant has to do with me or anything I’ve said. But okay, let’s “look it up”. The Nicene church became the monster it was attached by 10 times earlier. Constantine's Bible is at large a history of the development of scripture and of the NT canon. Thus another great victory has been won for “rationalism” and “free thought”. It seems the status of the Trullan Council or Quinisext Council was debated in the west and that, overall, it was not regarded as a true "Ecumenical Council" and therefore not binding on Christendom overall. (It is reported in the Supplement of the Council of Nicaea that the Fathers, when they had no idea how to determine which were the questionable or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testament, piled all of them disorderly on an altar; and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. (It has no consequences for your argument. I’m still an atheist. Constantine saw that the pagan gods failed to protect their worshipers. Justin Martyr, the most eminent of the early Fathers, wrote about the middle of the second century. Ok, so I’ve done a little bit more research since our last chat and I found this quote “The very names of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are never mentioned by him [Justin]—do not occur once in all his writings.”. They have nothing to do with my article above. Even if the “Philosophical Atheism” person was living in a cave in the early 2000s and so missed the memo that this stuff is garbage, even the most cursory fact checking would have at least raised doubts in someone who was a genuine rationalist. The question whether Constantine actually saw something, deluded himself, lied or (my bet, because I’m lazy) some combination is irrelevant. Textual analysis of Justin Martyr has convinced pretty much everyone that Justin knew both gMatth and gLuke as well as a harmonised form of both. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. Peter never believed in Paul as part of them but Paul’s books are in. So we rely on careful analysis to give us assessments of likelihood. “gain support, stabilise the Empire, harness popularity” Majority or historical approval mean nothing to me: the way is narrow. But it seems that the “heresy” of Marcion was what gave second century Christianity the impetus to begin to define which of these various texts had the status of “Scripture” and which did not. The story goes that Constantine had a vision of the words in hoc signo vinces ("in this sign you will conquer") upon a cross, and he swore that, should he triumph against great odds, he would pledge himself to Christianity. “. So he sought his father's God in prayer, pleading for him to tell him who he was and to stretch forth his hand to help him. This row actually had echoes down church history, because the filioque clause in the Creed which triggered the schism between Roman Catholic and orthodox churches in 1054, originally came from an attempt in 6th Century Spain to defend the Trinitarian position against Arianism, which had remained popular in Northern Europe. Some of it references real events. Constantine called a meeting of Christian bishops, the Council of Nicea, to settle the dispute. The full development of the canon took several centuries, though the basics of which gospels were to be included was settled by 200 AD at least. Is it historical, or a Christian legend? He lists the works which are generally “acknowledged” (Church History, 3.25.1), including the four canonical gospels, Acts, the Epistles of Paul, 1 John, 1 Peter and the Apocalypse of John/”Revelation” (though he says this is still disputed by some). Eusebius Records Constantine Claimed Inspiration. People don’t get talked into being atheists based on bad history. Constantine and the New Testament - Why did books like the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Thomas, and other ancient books (like 1 Enoch) never make it into the Bible? There is evidence that this idea was beginning to be applied to some of the early Christian writings as well, with references to four definitive gospels being made by Irenaeus in the mid second century and a reference to interpretation of the letters of Paul alongside “the rest of the Scriptures” being made as early as c. 120 AD (see 2Peter 3:16). stupid …. And it also seems that recent works, whether they were “heretical” (like the Gnostic gospels) or not (like The Shepherd of Hermas), did not have the status of works from the earliest years of Christianity. The story of early Christianity is a story of struggle, persecution and martyrdom, often at the hands of the ruling government. There is no reason to think it didn’t happen. Christmas on December 25 . 223-241, 1975. I genuinely don’t get how “Constantine decided the canon” can be anti-christian. However, this fact has also been a topic of controversy over a long period of time. It looked not so much as if Christianity was bad enough to include any vices, but rather as if any stick was good enough to beat Christianity with. Of course there is the problem that Constantine spoke Latin since he rule the Roman Empire. Book-burning is basically admitting that they are afraid of the text, and don’t trust HS to keep the Bible clean. 1. It also gives some approval to other, more recent works like The Shepherd of Hermas, but says they should not be read in church as Scripture. Much like many religious believers, ironically enough. Ok, but what about what Christian scholar Dr. Dowdwell says? No, Constantine did not form or collate the Bible. For example, a passage in Matthew has Jesus saying, “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.” This might allude to Matthew being a Roman Catholic Gospel, written after the beginning of the establishment of this hierarchy to uphold the supremacy of the Petrine Church of Rome. To this very day, all of his followers have used that same door: Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. He was the son of Constantius Chlorus by his first, informal marriage, called concubinatus, with Helena, a woman of inferior birth. They originally circulated simply as accounts of Jesus’ life and were only given their current attributions later in the second century. Constantine’s decision to cease the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was a turning point for early Christianity, sometimes referred to as the Triumph of the Church, the Peace of the Church, or the Constantinian Shift. Constantine wanted a Bible which would be acceptable to pagans as well as Christians, and Eusebius (the Bishop of Caesaria and a follower of Origen) was assigned to direct this task. (Eusebius, The Life of Constantine, chapter 62). “And I take it that since you didn’t respond directly to my theory about Luke being written in the 2nd century that you either agree with it or think it’s too stupid to even address?”. Constantine I - Constantine I - Commitment to Christianity: Shortly after the defeat of Maxentius, Constantine met Licinius at Mediolanum (modern Milan) to confirm a number of political and dynastic arrangements. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. As I have to note regularly, knowing things “for sure” is a luxury we rarely have when it comes to textual analysis and ancient history. What I mean is that they didn’t just pick them out, but also actively tampered with them. In fact, if he wanted to choose any sect to use to gain support, stabilise the Empire, harness popularity etc., then Christianity was about the worst one to choose in the early 300s. Constantine, although held by many to be the first "Christian" Roman Emperor, was actually a sun-worshiper who was only baptized on his deathbed. At Nicea Constantine had 300 versions of the Bible burnt, thus > legitimising and patronizing only the Paulic heresy. (Eusebius, The Life of Constantine, chapter 62). priests. People often wonder if the gospels were changed or corrupted, or even selected (in some back-room conspiracy) for inclusion in the Bible at this time. And you can’t take the name “Theophilus” and just decide this means gLuke refers to a particular individual with that name just because you want to. This is crackpot stuff. To me it looks like sound policy. Wrong. It was only these earliest works which were considered authoritative. Including emperors. Agnostic atheist scholar Bart Ehrman was typically emphatic on the subject: “The historical reality is that the emperor Constantine had nothing to do with the formation of the canon of scripture: he did not choose which books to include or exclude and he did not order the destruction of the gospels that were left out of the canon. It's not just Baptists – the idea that the "true" Christianity was hijacked by the wicked Constantine for political ends and turned into the Catholic Church and that the Reformation just reversed this situation has been a mainstay of Protestant historiography for centuries. The relevance for “philosophical atheism” of the question who actually put together the NT is beyond my understanding. ), “It is reported in the Supplement of the Council of Nicaea that the Fathers, when they had no idea how to determine which were the questionable or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testament, piled all of them disorderly on an altar; and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. Constantine And The Bible. It is very important to clarify exactly what role the Emperor Constantine played in the Council of Nicea, what the purpose for the council was, what happened at Nicea, and briefly how the canon—the Bible as we know it—was formed. Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament: Dungan, David L: Amazon.sg: Books Some historians also believe that while he reproduced the New Testament, he considered eighty different gospels and eventually chose only four gospels for inclusion in the final version. Go look it up.” is particularly amusing. The Muratorian Canon document accepts twenty-three of the twenty-seven works which now make up the New Testament in the Bible. But when we do we find that they are the same. The whole idea of a “canon” of accepted and authoritative works pre-dates Christianity and began with the development of schools of Greek philosophy. Constantine and the New Testament - Why did books like the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Thomas, and other ancient books (like 1 Enoch) never make it into the Bible? First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, which took place in 325 in the ancient city of Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey). What the Council did NOT vote on or even discuss was the Biblical canon – i.e. Constantine And The Bible. The questions whether the guy(s) did a good job and which standard we use seem far more relevant to atheist me. a tinfoil hatter …. According to many historians and the writer of the famous Da Vinci Code, the content of the present-day Bible that is known to people worldwide was actually put together by Constantine The Great, who was actually a pagan before this. Does is prove that Theodosius sincerely aknowledged the moral authority of the church? Study Notes on Constantine 1. In the year 553 A.D., 165 Church officials condemned reincarnation. Dungan, a student of early Christianity who has published studies Constantine was a Roman Emperor who lived from 274 to 337 A.D. (Constantine actually resisted baptism until he was on his deathbed.) It contributes zilch to the crucial questions whether he served the interests of the Empire well and how christianity managed to become state religion. He then imposed much more uniformity, but you are overstating the diversity of forms in the early fourth century. 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