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What was the effect of Constantine's legalization of Christianity?
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Constantine was searching for a way to strengthen imperial control, and wanted a religious parallel to civil rule. Although he was himself an initiate of Mithraism, which was a religion strongly entrenched in the army, it had no coherent ruling structure, so he turned to Christianity which had a system of bishops whom he could harness as his agents. So he first legalised Christianity, then assembled the bishops and forced them to stop internal conflict amongst the various sects, and charged them with bringing stability to the people and carrying out his edicts.
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∙ 7y agoThe status of Christianity was ambiguous in the first three centuries, with most emperors treating it with benign toleration, but at least three emperors invoking a claim that Christians belonged to an illegal cult. However, the Edict of Toleration, actually passed before Constantine became emperor, gave Christianity its legal status. Constantine passed the Edict of Milan, which gave further privileges to Christianity.
Constantine wanted a unified Christianity as a model for a unified empire, so the legalisation of Christianity was not meant to apply to the Gnostic branch of the faith, nor to Donatists. He called the Council of Nicaea for the purpose of achieving a common doctrine and eliminating divergent teachings, although in this he was not entirely successful.
Emperor Constantine's real contribution to Christianity was to give quite substantial state patronage to the Christian Church and begin the long persecution of the pagan temples.
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