Roberta Ahmanson on the Parallels Between 5th Century Roman Culture & Our Secular Moment
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Theodosius and the Academy
Theodosius was a very serious christian from spain, and he is the one who issued the edict that closed all the pagan temples. The last pagan scholar was removed from the equivalent of the university in constantinople, which is now istombull. In five 29, there were still pagans around, but the dominant thought is materialist, aosy? Well, the dominant thought was christian in the academy at the time. So that change had happened between 304 hundred and and augustinevery much lived in an intellectual community that had non christians, the manices and others.
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