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Defending Constantine

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Author : Peter J. Leithart
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2010-09-24

Defending Constantine written by Peter J. Leithart and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-24 with Religion categories.

Peter Leithart weighs what we've been taught about Constantine and claims that in focusing on these historical mirages we have failed to notice the true significance of Constantine and Rome baptized. He reveals how beneath the surface of this contested story there lies a deeper narrative--a tectonic shift in the political theology of an empire--with far-reaching implications.

Defending Constantine

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Author : Peter J. Leithart
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2010-09-07

Constantine And Eusebius

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Author : Timothy David Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1981

Constantine And Eusebius written by Timothy David Barnes and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.

Here is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.

Constantine The Emperor

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Author : David Stone Potter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015

Constantine The Emperor written by David Stone Potter and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

An authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine.

Constantine

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Author : Paul Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-08-04

Constantine written by Paul Stephenson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In AD 312, Constantine - one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire - marched on Rome to establish his sole control of its western half. On the eve of the decisive battle he later claimed to have seen a 'Cross-shaped trophy of light' in the heavens, a sign that the Christian God was his patron, ensuring his victory. But Constantine's conversion was not a momentary revelation inspired by a vision. It was a lifelong process inspired by his own mother and aligned with radical developments in the later Roman world. During Constantine's lifetime, Christianity emerged from the shadows and under his rule, its adherents were no longer persecuted. Constantine the victorious general advanced a new triumphalist brand of Christianity, which became the empire's dominant faith and entrenched an institutional Church that could propagate and sustain the imperial religion. Constantine would go on to unite the eastern and western halves of the empire, establishing a new ceremonial stage, his eponymous victory city, Constantinople. This was not a new capital to replace Rome, nor was it an exclusively Christian construction. Yet it became the greatest Christian city in the world, the capital of Byzantium even as Rome itself fell to barbarian hordes. Paul Stephenson offers a nuanced and deeply satisfying account of a man whose cultural and spiritual renewal of the Roman empire gave birth to the idea of a unified Christian empire from which Europe would emerge. In Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor, a seminal figure in political and cultural history has found the biographer he deserves.

Constantine And The Conversion Of Europe

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Author : Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1978-01-01

Constantine And The Conversion Of Europe written by Arnold Hugh Martin Jones and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with History categories.

A study of politics and religion during a key era (AD 284 - 337) when Christianity established itself as the dominant force shaping government and civilization. Reprinted from the 1962 edition, first published in 1948.

Constantine And The Bishops

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Author : Harold Allen Drake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Constantine And The Bishops written by Harold Allen Drake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

"A refreshingly original and powerfully argued re-conception of the issues and the forces at work in this period of the conversion not of Constantine, but of Christianity. A riveting story, and masterfully told." -- New Republic

Constantine Revisited

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Author : John D. Roth
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-06-27

Constantine Revisited written by John D. Roth and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-27 with Religion categories.

This collection of essays continues a long and venerable debate in the history of the Christian church regarding the legacy of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. For some, Constantine's conversion to Christianity early in the fourth century set in motion a process that made the church subservient to the civil authority of the state, brought a definitive end to pacifism as a central teaching of the early church, and redefined the character of Christian catechesis and missions. In 2010, Peter J. Leithart published a widely read polemic, Defending Constantine, that vigorously refuted this interpretation. In its place, Leithart offered a thoroughgoing rehabilitation of Constantine and his legacy, while directing a rhetorical fusillade against the pacifist theology and ethics of the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. The essays gathered here in response to Leithart reflect the insights of eleven leading theologians, historians, and ethicists from a wide range of theological traditions. They engage one of the most contentious issues in Christian church history in irenic fashion and at the highest level of scholarship. In so doing, they help ensure that the Constantinian Debate will continue to be lively, substantive, and consequential.

Church And World

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Author : Simon P. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-01-01

Church And World written by Simon P. Schmidt and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-01 with Religion categories.

"In the world but not of it" - an expression that has been interpreted in a multitude of ways. With the publication of Rod Dreher’s much-debated book The Benedict Option in 2017, the question of just how the church is to exist "in but not of the world" is once again on the minds of many. To provide answers true to the context in which the Western church now finds itself, it is worth first investigating how the question has been answered in the past. In determining what to do today, it helps to understand how we got here in the first place. At the beginning of the fourth century, people were persecuted for being Christians; by the end of the fourth century, people were persecuted for not being Christians. This book is an academic investigation of how three paradigmatic theologians interpreted this so-called Constantinian shift: Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260-339), Augustine of Hippo (354-430), and John Howard Yoder (1927-1997). Surprising similarities between the theology of Eusebius and Yoder become apparent, and underlying theological structures of how to interpret what it looks like to be a community that follows Christ are revealed.

Constantine And The Divine Mind

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Author : Kegan A. Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-12-18

Constantine And The Divine Mind written by Kegan A. Chandler and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-18 with Religion categories.

Constantine’s conversion to Christianity marks one of the most significant turning points in the epic of Western civilization. It is also one of history’s most controversial and hotly-debated episodes. Why did Constantine join a persecuted sect? When did he convert? And what kind of Christian did he ultimately become? Such questions have perennially challenged historians, but modern scholarship has opened a new door towards understanding the fourth century’s most famous and mysterious convert. In Constantine and the Divine Mind, Chandler offers a new portrait of Constantine as a deeply religious man on a quest to restore what he believed was once the original religion of mankind: monotheism. By tracing this theological quest and important historical trends in Roman paganism, Chandler illuminates the process by which Constantine embraced Christianity, and how the reasons for that embrace continued to manifest in his religious policies. In this we discover not only Constantine’s personal religious journey, but the reason why Christianity was first developed into a world power.

Defending Constantine

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