In Roman times,  which emperior legalized the right for the people to have faith in Jesus?
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It was Constantine. \n\n"Constantine is perhaps best known for being the first Roman Emperor to freely allow Christianity." (wikipedia)\n\nIncidentally, he let his mom (Helena Augusta) go around and pick out all the holy sites.
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The Promise by When in Rome.
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Well, after Constantine conquered Rome, he legalized Christianity.  You could make the case that he's directly responsible for the Dark Ages, which began a little over a century later, a thousand years of superstition, ignorance, and repression of the arts and sciences, under religious rule.   More like de-civilzation and cultural devolvement.
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Like the U.S the romans had a multicultural society. Before the empire during the Republic, the Romans had a somewhat representative society.
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Somewhere around 1000 B.C.  I'm not all that up on very early classical Greek or Roman history but that's where the principles for our own government originate.  Rome was a unicameral representative republic before it became an empire.  Greece was closer to a collection of republican city-states.\n\nTrue democracy at the time, as discussed by Plato, was very close to anarchy.  The problem with true democracy is that a minority is not protected from the majority and has no rights.  It is essentially mob mentality.\n\nThe establishment of a Constitutional Republic such as ours (America's) was a truely revolutionary system at the time, wherein the rights of those in the minority were guaranteed but the policy of the majority would still be imposed.  This is most evident in the advent of a bi-cameral legislature where on one side, even states with tiny populations had an even voice with other states (equal rights for minority/majority), and on the other side the population determined the fate of the nation (majority rules).  To this day, a better system of "democratic rule" that realistically works has not been invented.\n\nSteps in recent years have been taken to nullify this system and place the power into the hands of a select group of individuals.  This is exactly the shift that converted the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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Capitalism as a religion, you should read Mathew. It was clearly stated who those people are that oppose the rise of Christianity, they had him put up on the cross.
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I haven't heard of anything like this. There seems to have been little contemporary references to Jesus in Roman sources so such a letter would be priceless. \n\nHowever, Dennis Lemon of Gay News was convicted of blasphemy in 1978 in Britain for printing a letter from a Roman centurion claiming that he loved Jesus. There is no basis for thinking that such a document existed. For a start, many centurions were illiterate.
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Well, for one thing Saladin allowed for religious freedom among those living in Jerusalem at the time.  He didn't murder Christians or force them to leave; he allowed them to remain and practice their faith.
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he felt the state should not hamper the establishment of religious groups. He sought a government which would be friendly to groups wishing to establish a worship of the Christian faith, without out limiting it to the puritaqn denominations.
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Roman Republic ruled during 120 BC. This republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy (at the time the monarch was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus) in 510 BC and lasted until its subversion, through a series of civil wars, into the Principate form of government. The precise date in which the Roman Republic changed into the Roman Empire is disputed, with the dates of Julius Caesar's appointment as perpetual dictator (44 BC); thus starting the age of emperors (Augustus, etc.)
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Yes, Christianity is the largest community of faith. There are more nations that claim Christianity as their faith than any others.
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Jesus said, "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." (Matt. 28:18-20)\n\nThe Catholic Church has been telling the world governments what it believes is right and wrong since the ancient Romans stopped persecuting it and long before anyone heard of the freedom of speech. The Catholic Church protested about the blood sports in the Roman Colosseum and they were stopped. \n\nI don't think the Church is going to (or should) stop now.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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well, the "whole Jesus thing" had nothing to do with the life of a female slave in Roman time. anyhow, it all depended upon how the slave owner treated you. they did not have any rights, but they could earn their freedom and actually make a significant life for themselves.\n\nthe Roman Empire really made so many significant advances. they took what they learned from groups of people all over the world- including the Greeks & Etruscans. they then molded it into something. they really advanced what they absorbed from other peoples. they were great in that aspect & with all their innovations. they weren't perfect, obviously, or they would never have fallen!\n\nyou really do need to read your text book if this is a homework question because there are many specific answers and some vary depending upon the source, especially to the second question.
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As early as the fourth century B.C., the Romans engaged in an annual young man's rite to passage to the God Lupercus. The names of the teenage women were placed in a box and drawn at random by adolescent men; thus, a man was assigned a woman companion for the duration of the year, after which another lottery was staged. After eight hundred years of this cruel practice, the early church fathers sought to end this practice... They found an answer in Valentine, a bishop who had been martyred some two hundred years earlier.\n\nAccording to church tradition St. Valentine was a priest near Rome in about the year 270 A.D. At that time the Roman Emperor Claudius-II who had issued an edict forbidding marriage.\nThis was around when the heyday of Roman empire had almost come to an end. Lack of quality administrators led to frequent civil strife. Learning declined, taxation increased, and trade slumped to a low, precarious level. And the Gauls, Slavs, Huns, Turks and Mongolians from Northern Europe and Asian increased their pressure on the empire's boundaries. The empire was grown too large to be shielded from external aggression and internal chaos with existing forces. Thus more of capable men were required to be recruited as soldiers and officers. When Claudius became the emperor, he felt that married men were more emotionally attached to their families, and thus, will not make good soldiers. So to assure quality soldiers, he banned marriage.\nValentine, a bishop , seeing the trauma of young lovers, met them in a secret place, and joined them in the sacrament of matrimony. Claudius learned of this "friend of lovers," and had him arrested. The emperor, impressed with the young priest's dignity and conviction, attempted to convert him to the roman gods, to save him from certain execution. Valentine refused to recognize Roman Gods and even attempted to convert the emperor, knowing the consequences fully.\nOn February 24, 270, Valentine was executed.\n\n"From your Valentine"\nWhile Valentine was in prison awaiting his fate, he came in contact with his jailor, Asterius. The jailor had a blind daughter. Asterius requested him to heal his daughter. Through his faith he miraculously restored the sight of Asterius' daughter. Just before his execution, he asked for a pen and paper from his jailor, and signed a farewell message to her "From Your Valentine," a phrase that lived ever after.\n\n\nValentine thus become a Patron Saint, and spiritual overseer of an annual festival. The festival involved young Romans offering women they admired, and wished to court, handwritten greetings of affection on February 14. The greeting cards acquired St.Valentine's name.\n\nThe Valentine's Day card spread with Christianity, and is now celebrated all over the world. One of the earliest card was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. The card is now preserved in the British Museum.
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You mean the frist building? The church was "instituted" when Jesus gave it to the apostles. But im not sure when the first actual building was erected. Constantine might have built the first one. The first Catholic "church" would have jsut been in someones house or in a cave, before Constantine legalized the religion
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Tis where Rome was... ya see, that's where the early church started out and the capital of the roman empire (which twas in charge) also the book of Romans was written to Christians in Rome... so there ya go, very important I'd say one of the top 3 citites, Jeusalem, Antioch, Rome
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I would hardly call the Legalized Christian and the Lawless Christian "Christian" at all. \n\nYour right though, but don't forget the Gentiles.\n" I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." (Romans 1:16)