How the Role of Official toleration during the reign of Constantine helped spread the faith
How the Role of Official toleration during the reign of Constantine helped spread the faith By Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Abstract This research paper examines how religious tolerance policy during the reign of Emperor Constantine helped spread the faith. It explains Emperor Constantine’s relationship with Christianity and Christian beliefs. I will also examine Eusebius, Lactantius, and Ossius, who shaped and influenced most of Constantine’s religious policies. Many scholars viewed Eusebius as a big influence on the emperor’s religious policies. In his Vita Constantini, Eusebius describes the emperor’s religious life, which shaped his policy on toleration. Along with Ossius, Eusebius led Constantine into the Christian faith and enable him to establish the Christian religion as is currently constituted. Lactinius opened Christianity to pagans, allowing many of them to join the religion. This gesture indicated that the Christian religion had become open and more welcoming, spreading to most parts of the Empire. Eusebius, Ossius, and Lactinius guided Emperor Constantine to establish the official toleration policy, which reverberates in today’s…