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A 3 page essay that summarizes and reflects upon chapter 12 in Justo Gonzalez's The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. No additional sources cited.
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Research Compiled By - February, 2012 properly! Chapter 12 of Gonzalezs text,
"The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is characterized as "the most cruel that the4 ancient Church had to endure," as well as
an account transitioned into a new age under Constantine.i Diocletian reorganized governance of the Empire and this ushered in a period of renewed prosperity. His reorganization involved a team of
rulers. Two rulers had the title of "augustus": Diocletian in the East and Maximian in the West.ii Each "augustus" had a subordinate emperor under him with the title of "caesar,"
with Galerius under Diocletian and Constantius Chlorus under Maximian.iii For a while, this worked quite well and Empire experienced relative peace, with only Galerius having to undertake significant military campaigns.
Diocletian did not seem disposed against Christians, as both his wife and daughter were Christians. However, this was not the case with Galerius who felt that the attitude of Christians
towards military service constituted a serious problem.iv While most Christians eschewed military service, there were some Christians in the Roman army and Galerius feared that they would, at some point,
refuse to obey orders. Therefore he convinced Diocletian to expel all Christians from the Roman legions.v Diocletian did not order further penalties, but some officers, perhaps because they did not
want to see their ranks thinned, instituted efforts to force Christian soldiers to deny their faith.vi Executions resulted. Gonzalez describes how events escalated from this point, with more actions taken
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