Constantine And The Divine Mind
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Author | : Kegan A. Chandler |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532689926 |
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.
Author | : Jonathan Bardill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0521764238 |
"Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. The book explores the emperor's image as conveyed through literature, art, and architecture, and shows how Constantine reconciled the tradition of imperial divinity with his monotheistic faith. It demonstrates how the traditional themes and imagery of kingship were exploited to portray the emperor as the saviour of his people and to assimilate him to Christ. This is the first book to study simultaneously both archaeological and historical information to build a picture of the emperor's image and propaganda. It is extensively illustrated" --Provided by publisher.
Author | : Arnold Hugh Martin Jones |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802063694 |
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.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004502521 |
This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.
Author | : Iain Ferris |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1445635445 |
The history of one of the most impressive surviving monument in Rome.
Author | : H. A. Drake |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2002-09-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801871047 |
Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.
Author | : M. Shane Bjornlie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317025652 |
The transformation from the classical period to the medieval has long been associated with the rise of Christianity. This association has deeply influenced the way that modern audiences imagine the separation of the classical world from its medieval and early modern successors. The role played in this transformation by Constantine as the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire has also profoundly shaped the manner in which we frame Late Antiquity and successive periods as distinctively Christian. The modern demarcation of the post-classical period is often inseparable from the reign of Constantine. The attention given to Constantine as a liminal figure in this historical transformation is understandable. Constantine’s support of Christianity provided the religion with unprecedented public respectability and public expressions of that support opened previously unimagined channels of social, political and economic influence to Christians and non-Christians alike. The exact nature of Constantine’s involvement or intervention has been the subject of continuous and densely argued debate. Interpretations of the motives and sincerity of his conversion to Christianity have characterized, with various results, explanations of everything from the religious culture of the late Roman state to the dynamics of ecclesiastical politics. What receives less-frequent attention is the fact that our modern appreciation of Constantine as a pivotal historical figure is itself a direct result of the manner in which Constantine’s memory was constructed by the human imagination over the course of centuries. This volume offers a series of snapshots of moments in that process from the fourth to the sixteenth century.
Author | : John William Eadie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Explores two areas of Constantine's religious affiliation: his conversion to Christianity and the specific details connected to his actions.
Author | : Noel Lenski |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2016-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812292235 |
Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state—a feat largely credited to Constantine the Great. Constantine succeeded in propelling this minority religion to imperial status using the traditional tools of governance, yet his proclamation of his new religious orientation was by no means unambiguous. His coins and inscriptions, public monuments, and pronouncements sent unmistakable signals to his non-Christian subjects that he was willing not only to accept their beliefs about the nature of the divine but also to incorporate traditional forms of religious expression into his own self-presentation. In Constantine and the Cities, Noel Lenski attempts to reconcile these apparent contradictions by examining the dialogic nature of Constantine's power and how his rule was built in the space between his ambitions for the empire and his subjects' efforts to further their own understandings of religious truth. Focusing on cities and the texts and images produced by their citizens for and about the emperor, Constantine and the Cities uncovers the interplay of signals between ruler and subject, mapping out the terrain within which Constantine nudged his subjects in the direction of conversion. Reading inscriptions, coins, legal texts, letters, orations, and histories, Lenski demonstrates how Constantine and his subjects used the instruments of government in a struggle for authority over the religion of the empire.
Author | : Maurice F. Wiles |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
ISBN | : 9789042908819 |