03-23-2005, 08:56 PM
Count Duckula,Mar 23 2005, 12:49 PM Wrote:I have everything except the paper...which isn't written yet. :o Bibliography, outline, etc. That's my midterm and final exam for European Empires. The paper's gonna focus on why Diocletian persecuted the Christians and the very next emperor, Constantine, made Christianity the empire's religion and banned all the pagan ones.
I never knew that would interest anyone. :blink:
Right now I'm spending my time finishing creative writing projects, a couple jewelry projects, and deciding where to eat lunch out of the 60+ restaurants around here.
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Having read Constantine's Sword by James Caroll, a liberal writer who attended divinity school but turned in his mitre so he could marry and raise a family, I am interested in a variety of viewpoints on the relationships between The Church and Governments. Given our nation's founding principles, it has intrigued me most of my life.
My two offspring, soon to be 13 and 16, ask lots of interesting questions on religion, and government. Would love to see what you arrive at. Each persons's synthesis, I have found, regardless of my overall agreement or disagreement, offers me insights worth harvesting. :D
If you did not read Caroll's book, and have an interests in the topic beyond " I gotta do it to get credit this year" I recommend it strongly. A bit longish, and a bit introspective on the authors part, but a very interesting treatment of where Christianity and the Hebrews parted company, and why he feels they need to reconcile more thoroughly after two millenia of putting up with each other with some distaste, and occasionally worse.
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete