Tabletalk Magazine, August 2004: A Defining Era: The History of the Church in the Fourth Century (Biblia.com)

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The August 2004 issue of Tabletalk examines the history of the church in the fourth century. Contributors include R. C. Sproul, John D. Hannah, Richard Gamble, George Grant, Ken Jones, Gene Edward Veith, and R. C. Sproul Jr.

faith in Christ, bringing with them into the church their pagan worldviews. Under Constantine and his successors, the Christian church as an institution rushed into the vacuum of the pagan temples. Under the old regime, priests were exempt from taxation, a privilege extended to the Christian clergy, whereupon many Romans entered the ministry for other than religious reasons. The state gave its wealth to the pagan temples, so now government money flowed to the church, with all of the temptations and

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