Los orígenes del cristianismo hispano. Algunas claves sociológicas

Abstract

From the third century on Christianity became rooted in Hispania as a syncretic religion that appealed mainly to urban oligarchy and high social strata. Because they were the main Christian disseminators and leaders, the Spanish churches lived in perfect harmony with their social environment and that made it possible for them to assume, without traumatic breaks, the political role and policy of integration previously played by the Roman religion. The first Christian communities’ fervent and free spirituality was shared in Hispania especially throughout the fourth century, above all among heretic aristocrats who were relentlessly harassed both by the Roman State and the orthodox Church.