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El cristianismo se implantó en Hispania a partir del siglo III, con contenidos y formas de carácter sincretista y entre las oligarquías y capas altas sociales. Por ser estos sectores sus principales difusores y dirigentes, las iglesias hispanas vivieron en plena armonía con su entorno social y asumieron paulatinamente, sin rupturas traumáticas, el papel integrador y político antes desempeñado por la religión romana. La espiritualidad ferviente y libre de las primeras comunidades cristianas sólo se conoció en el siglo IV, entre aristócratas heréticos, perseguidos y marginados por el Estado romano y por la Iglesia ortodoxa. 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. |