This is what happened when Christians took over the Roman Empire | 325 - 451AD

Help us bring 2,000 years of the ChristianStory to life! Everything we do is made possible through the generosity of viewers like you and we want our videos to be free forever. Join the mission: https://shorturl.at/obh7G For 300 years, Christianity was a strange, small, persecuted community of faith, on the fringes of society. Then, suddenly, everything changed. The Roman Emperor had become a Christian and, almost overnight, the Church became one of the most powerful forces in the Roman Empire. But this led to new challenges. What does it mean to be a Jesus-follower when Jesus-followers rule the world? It’s one thing to be tested by persecution and suffering, but a whole different thing to be tested by power and position. The years between 325 and 451 was a particularly uncomfortable and challenging time in Christian history – when Christians began to take power for the first time; when theological debates spilled out onto the streets; and when, at the end of it, the Church experienced its first permanent split. This video takes us through the tumultuous years between the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Chalcedon. No Generative AI was used in any part of this video. This video took over 1,000 hours to make! ChristianStory is a crowdfunded project, and every video we create is made possible by generous supporters. Find out more about our project and consider partnering with us to help bring Christian History and Theology to life: https://christianstory.com/give 📖 To go deeper into the video, download our free deep-dive dossier written by our researcher. It's completely free, no catch. Just good nerdy content. But please do consider a voluntary donation: https://christianstory.com/dossiers/EndOfTheEarlyChurch 📺 Full series playlist: • The Early Church [33 – 500AD] 🔔 Subscribe for future episodes bringing to life 2,000 years of Christian History and Theology. 00:00 - 01:09 The Murder of Hypatia 01:10 - 02:53 The Christian Emperors 02:54 - 04:45 Violence in Alexandria 04:46 - 05:52 Wrestling with Power and Influence 06:53 - 08:16 Why Theology split society 08:16 - 08:42 The Council of Constantinople 08:43 - 10:49 The Council of Ephesus: A new controversy about Mary 10:50 - 13:28 The Council of Chalcedon and the first Schism 13:29 - 14:30 What now? 14:31 - 16:13 The first images of the Cross