Religion was subject to the emperor in the Roman empire,Explain why the subordination of the Christian church.

Question

Religion was very much subject to the emperor in the Roman empire (and eventually, in the Byzantine empire). Explain why the subordination of the Christian church to secular rulers was not as great in Latin Christendom. Why were rulers unable to permanently control the Church in the west?

Answer 1

It WAS subject to some extent to the emperor until the Roman emperors themselves became Catholic. Even during supression and persecution, however, the Church flourished and was not "held back" by Roman domination because Jesus promised to guide and protect us.

Two Roman emperors both passed important laws to protect the Church in the 4th century.

With the Edict of Milan, Constantine guaranteed the free practice of Christianity.

And Theodosius, in 391, declared Christianity as the only legitimate imperial religion, ending state support for the traditional Roman religion.

Answer 2

Your question is based on a false assumption: There was no subordination of the Christian church to secular rulers. God guides the Catholic Church

Jesus promised, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.

Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.) Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history: Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy.

The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin: Any merely human organization would have collapsed long ago. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with 1.3 billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20). For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28). Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19). The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it went all the way back to the time of the apostles.

http://www.catholic.com/library/Pillar.asp

Answer 3

Veritas and Catholic Crusader have it right.

Answer 4

archaic world...change takes time with foolish humans..