CREATION, SALVATION, AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE. SOME REMARKS ON THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE COSMOPOLITAN POWER IN THE THOUGHT OF PAUL OROSIUS
CREATION, SALVATION, AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE. SOME REMARKS ON THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE COSMOPOLITAN POWER IN THE THOUGHT OF PAUL OROSIUS

Summary/Abstract: The central concept in Paulus Orosius’s political reflections in the work, History Against thePagans, is the universal power of the Roman emperors. This concept is part of a long tradition ofChristian thinkers who granted universalistic value to empire. In this context, the question wasposed: what theological arguments allowed Orosius to justify this authority? The course of theargument demonstrated that Orosius derived the legitimacy of the existence of a worldly centreof power, in this case the power of the Roman emperors, from theological findings, namely reflec-tions on creation (protology) and salvation (soteriology).

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