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Creation, Salvation, and the Roman Empire. Some remarks on the theological origins of the cosmopolitan power in the thought of Paul Orosius
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2024-06) Tomasiewicz, Marcin
The central concept in Paulus Orosius's political reflections in the work, History Against the Pagans, is the universal power of the Roman emperors. This concept is part of a long tradition of Christian thinkers who granted universalistic value to empire. In this context, the question was posed: what theological arguments allowed Orosius to justify this authority? The course of the argument demonstrated that Orosius derived the legitimacy of the existence of a worldly centre of power, in this case the power of the Roman emperors, from theological findings, namely reflections on creation (protology) and salvation (soteriology).