Religious Toleration
Definition
The 313 agreement between Constantine and Licinius granting legal protection to Christianity and all religious expression, ending the Diocletian persecution and restoring confiscated property.
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Edict Of Milan
Biblical References
- Malachi 4:2 — *But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall. *
- Revelation 1:10 — *I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, *
- Luke 2:52 — *And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and with people. *
- Proverbs 8:22 (LXX) — The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.
- John 1:14 — *Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. *
- John 3:16 — *For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. *