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In the 4Th century St. Augustine converted Christian theology into Noe-Platonism.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm
This lasted until 900 years until Aquinas in the 13 century converted Christianity to Aristotelianism.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm
Only a few years before Augustine was born, "Diocletian commanded Christian churches to be destroyed, their Sacred Books to be delivered up and burnt, while they themselves were outlawed.....A hundred years earlier Tertullian had taught that flight from persecution was not permissible. Some now went beyond this, and voluntarily gave themselves up to martyrdom as Christians."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05121a.htm
Angels were seldom represented in Christian art before Constantine.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01485a.htm
Questions about the relationship of the Father to the Son "gave rise, between the years A.D. 60 and 200, to a number of Theosophic systems, called generally Gnosticism, and having for their authors Basilides, Valentinus, Tatian, and other Greek speculators."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01707c.htm
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