Editing Integralism (section)

===History===
[[File:Raphael - Coronation of Charlemagne.jpg|thumb|200x200px|''The Coronation of Charlemagne'', [[fresco]] from the workshop of [[Raphael]] depicting the crowning of [[Charlemagne]] as [[Holy Roman Emperor|Imperator Romanorum]] by [[Pope Leo III]] on [[Christmas|Christmas Day]], 800.|left]]
The first polity that formally embraced Christianity was Armenia under [[Tiridates III of Armenia|Tiridates III]]. However, the establishment of the civil order upheld by integralists is generally thought of as beginning with the conversion of Roman Emperor [[Constantine I]] in 312. While Constantine personally embraced [[Christianity]], it was only in 380 that [[Theodosius I]] formally adopted [[Nicene Christianity]] as the religion of the empire by the [[Edict of Thessalonica]]. What [[R. W. Southern]] called the identification of the Church with the whole of organised society<ref name="Southern">{{cite book |last1=Southern |first1=Richard William |title=Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages |date=1970 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-020503-9 |page=16 }}</ref> was intensified by the legal reforms of [[Justinian]] in the 6th century. The climactic stage in the identification began in the Latin West with the papal transference of [[Translatio imperii]] to Charlemagne in 800. The Constantinian age began to decline with the [[Reformation]] and is generally treated as ending with the [[French Revolution]]. In 1950, [[Pius XII]] identified the Dominican friar and prophet [[Girolamo Savonarola|Savonarola]] as an early pioneer of integralism in the face of the "neo-pagan" influences of the [[Renaissance]]: "Savonarola shows us the strong conscience of the ascetic and an apostle who has a lively sense of things divine and eternal, who takes a stand against rampant paganism, who remains faithful to the evangelical and Pauline ideal of integral Christianity, put into action in public life as well and animating all institutions. This is why he started preaching, prompted by an interior voice and inspired by God."<ref name="Pius XII">"Savonarola si rivela una forte coscienza di asceta e di apostolo che ha vivo il senso del divino e dell'eterno, che si rivolta contro il paganesimo dilagante, che resta fedele all'ideale evangelico e paolino di un Cristianesimo integrale, attuato anche nella vita pubblica e animante tutte le istituzioni. Perciò diede inizio alle sue predicazioni, spintovi da una Voce interiore e ispirato da Dio" ''L'Osservatore Romano'' 5 November 1969.</ref>