32-Julian, the Apostate Who Aped the Church | Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina
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- There’s no anti-Christian like an ex-Christian, and there was no figure in antiquity like the Emperor Julian. He promoted the return of paganism as the official religion of the Roman Empire. But it was a strange paganism, modeled on the Christian Church. Julian began by making it difficult for Christians to work in professions like education, law, and military. His methods were mostly bloodless. He knew that martyrs made Christianity strong. It was better he thought, to marginalize believers, neutralizing their influence, pushing them out of public life.
Links
Julian the Apostate, Against the Galileans www.tertullian.org/fathers/jul...
Julian the Apostate, Oration upon the Sovereign Sun www.tertullian.org/fathers/jul...
Gregory Nazianzen, “Oration 4: First Invective Against Julian” www.tertullian.org/fathers/gre...
Adrian Murdoch, The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World www.amazon.com/Last-Pagan-Jul...
More works by the Fathers www.catholicculture.org/cultu...
Mike Aquilina’s website fathersofthechurch.com
Mike Aquilina’s books catholicbooksdirect.com/write...
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Mike Aquilina is the best! 💓.
I was wondering if Mike Aquilina/Catholic Culture have come across the Apology of St. Artistedes of Athens written ~125A.D to the Emperor Hadrian. It's such a wonderful Early Christian work and was very moved reading it today. It's also a very Early testimony that Early Christians viewed Jesus as God incarnate, useful to have against the claims made by Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses etc. who say the Early Church didn't recognise Christ as Divine. God Bless as always.
I'm sure Mike has. I remember reading or skimming it a few years ago.
@@CatholicCulturePod maybe you should make a video reading it with visuals and text. With preface to give it context and commentary at the end for edification.
@@DavidRodriguez-er4rq Nice idea - we have limited resources for video production of that kind, but in case you don't know, we do have an audiobook series already. (We haven't done the work by St. Aristides, but we will consider it, and also will definitely do works by St. Justin Martyr in the future.)
@@CatholicCulturePod awesome 😎
Thank you mr.Aquilina for this!
21:41 As relevant for us to understand today as it was 1500 years ago. May all the utopians, big and small come to understand this truth, we need Grace, without it, nothing good can be done or sustained
The Apostasy of Julian is alive and well among to today's secularists. And it seem to be failing in all of the same ways for all of the same reasons.
Too bad, he could have been truly great had wrath not burned and poisoned his hands.
I made a little dark age video about me check it out 😉