The Great Constantine and Athanasius. A Meeting between Two Different Worlds

Pavel Pavlov

The Great Constantine and Athanasius. A Meeting between Two Different Worlds

Authors

Pavel Pavlov Faculty of Theology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Keywords:

Athanasius of Alexandria, Constantine the Great, Constantino-ple, Byzantium, Greek Fathers, Church History, Roman History

Abstract

Pavel Pavloff, The Great Constantine and Athanasius. A Meeting between Two Different Worlds. This paper presents the encounter between Constantine and Athanasius as an example of the collision between two worlds: Egyptian monasticism and the Roman state, which was already in the process of its irreversible Christianization.