Preview   The question of how monotheism affects the idea of monarchy in the Roman empire has been intensively discussed ever since Erik Peterson’s “Der Monotheismus als Politisches Problem.”.[1] Peterson argues that in Eusebius of Caesarea’s ‘Arian theology’ the one divine monarch corresponds to one earthly monarch, ‘orthodox’ trinitarian theology, focusing on the equality in … Continue reading Christ the emperor: Christian theology and the Roman emperor in the fourth century AD