LE CHRISTIANISME DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN (IVE-VIIE SIÈCLES)
CHRISTIANITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE (4TH-7TH CENTURIES)

Summary/Abstract: The presence of elements of the Dacian and Roman material culture and the absence of elements specific to the Sarmathian or Germanic tribes have determined us to attribute many of these habitats to the natives (Bratei, Tega, Stupini, Gropsani, etc.); as far as the Goths are concerned, we can attribute to them, with certainty, only burial cemeteries (Sântana de Mureş, Târgu Mureş, Palatca). One can also note the existence of numerous agglomerations from the 5th century and the beginning of the 6th century, or from the 7th century (many of them are superimposed on the others, older, from the 3rd-4th centuries). The adoption of the Christian belief determines every human community to pass, not only from the spiritual point of view, into a higher stage of development. Its spread is possible only in communities which have reached a higher stage of organization, representing a spiritual unity. Monotheism cannot be conceived without political unity. This is why the Roman Empire represented the favorable framework for the development and propagation of Christianity. Moreover, the Christians form, from now on, a ,,nation” whose culture and civilization are distinguished from the others.

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