ANDRADE, Pedro Regnoberto Alves de.
Resumen:
This monograph aims to demonstrate how Hellenic culture (3rd and 2nd centuries
BC) and later Roman traditions from the 1st century were instrumental in the
development and transformation of Christian doctrine, which culminated in the
institutionalisation of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire in 313
AD. By analyzing the historical and social context of the Asian part of the Roman
domains, mainly Judea and Galilee – through the documentary record of the gospels
and the apostolic fathers, in addition to the dialogue with Veyne (2010) –, we can
reveal the difference between the practices disseminated by the first apostles of
Jesus and those that were widespread in the fifth century. It also analyses the
reasons for adopting these practices and whether they were fundamental to the
institutionalisation of the imperial Christian religion. The research will prioritise
dogmas and traditions that are explicitly from the culture, philosophy and religiosity of
the Greeks and Romans and that were adopted by the followers of Christianity from
the first century until the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD.
