There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire

"There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth—century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in—depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power. Drawing together materials spanning a wide chronological ...