Books by Robert A. Markus

The history of Christianity has been marked by tension between ideas of sacred and secular, their shifting balance, and their conflict. In Christianity and the Secular, Robert A. Markus examines the place of the secular in Christianity, locating the origins of the concept in the New Testament and early Christianity and describing its emergence as a problem for Christianity following the recognition of Christianity as an established religion, then the officially enforced religion, of the Roman Empire.

This work encompasses sacred and secular themes in late antiquity. It covers the Latin fathers, St Augustine, Justinian's ecclesiastical politics, heresy, orthodoxy and paganism in the Latin west, and Augustiniana miscellanea (signs, philosophy and eschatology and conversion).