Los orígenes del cristianismo hispano. Algunas claves sociológicas

El cristianismo se implant?? en Hispania a partir del siglo III, con contenidos y formas de car??cter sincretista y entre las oligarqu??as y capas altas sociales. Por ser estos sectores sus principales difusores y dirigentes, las iglesias hispanas vivieron en plena armon??a con su entorno social y asumieron paulatinamente, sin rupturas traum??ticas, el papel integrador y pol??tico antes desempe??ado por la religi??n romana. La espiritualidad ferviente y libre de las primeras comunidades cristianas s??lo se conoci?? en el siglo IV, entre arist??cratas her??ticos, perseguidos y marginados por el Estado romano y por la Iglesia ortodoxa.From the third century on Christianity became rooted in Hispania as a\udsyncretic religion that appealed mainly to urban oligarchy and high social strata.\udBecause they were the main Christian disseminators and leaders, the Spanish\udchurches lived in perfect harmony with their social environment and that made it\udpossible for them to assume, without traumatic breaks, the political role and\udpolicy of integration previously played by the Roman religion. The first Christian communities??? fervent and free spirituality was shared in Hispania especially\udthroughout the fourth century, above all among heretic aristocrats who were\udrelentlessly harassed both by the Roman State and the orthodox Church