THE ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL AND QUESTION OF WAR FOR CHRISTIANS OF EARLY AGE

This article is devoted to the study of Christian attitude to the war phenomena in II-III centuries. The Author insist, that Church didn’t developed a clear answer to the question of acceptability participation in wars to their believers. At the same time there were two trends: first, represented by Tertullian, clearly separating Christians from the state with all its cares and the second, based on the position of the Alexandrian school, argues that Christians should take on for the certain earthly cares. Since the beginning of the IV century and the adoption of the Edict of Milan the second trend deceived victory.