期刊名称：Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture
印刷版ISSN：1754-517X
出版年度：2019
卷号：13
页码：1-21
DOI：10.18573/jlarc.109
语种：English
出版社：Cardiff University
摘要：The tolerance of the Roman state towards Christianity, which had been established by Constantine in 313, did not entail peace and religious stability for the Empire. The gradual accumulation of competences by bishops through their status as religious specialists as well as their uneasy relationship with political power throughout the increasingly radicalized the Arian-Nicene conflict and led the imperial authorities to adopt a series of legal measures. Those measures aimed at clarifying the status of the episcopate and its relationship with the legal authorities. In this context, the passing of the so-called ecclesiastical privilegium fori attempted to provide an answer to the pleas for legal independence by the bishops. Nevertheless, despite the fact that it was enacted in the context of the Constantinian dynasty granting a series of privileges to the Church, this legal measure, like all others, was not immune to the selfish manipulation of the very same authorities that had passed it.
关键词：CTh 16.2.12;privilegium fori;Arian-Nicene Conflict;Constantius II
