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When Jesus Became God The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E Rubenstein - From Pain Comes Understanding
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When Jesus Became God: The
Struggle to Define Christianity during
the Last Days of Rome by Richard E.
Rubenstein
Divinity Decided By A Vote!
The Gospel narratives may suggest that Jesus was divine, but they do not
insist upon it....
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When Jesus Became God: The
Struggle to Define Christianity during
the Last Days of Rome by Richard E.
Rubenstein
Divinity Decided By A Vote!
The Gospel narratives may suggest that Jesus was divine, but they do not
insist upon it.
Hundreds of years after Jesus death, the Church councils
made Jesus divinity a central tenet of belief among many of his followers.
When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christs Divinity in the Last
Days of Rome by Richard Rubenstein is a narrative history of Christians
early efforts to define Christianity by convening councils and writing
creeds.
Rubenstein is most interested in the battle between Arius,
Presbyter of Alexandria, and Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria.
Arius said
that Christ did not share Gods nature but was the first creature God
created.
Athanasius said that Christ was fully God.
At the Council of Nicea
in 325, the Church Fathers came down on Athanasiuss side and made
Ariuss belief a heresy.
Rubensteins brisk, incisive prose bring
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