Defending Constantine

Defending Constantine
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2010-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830827226

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.

The Conversion of Constantine

The Conversion of Constantine
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.

Beyond Intolerance

Beyond Intolerance
Author: Davide Dainese
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 9782503574493

313 AD is generally considered as a "turning point" in religious and political Western history. The meeting of Constantine and Licinius in Milan and the subsequent "edict" opened the way to the Christianisation of Roman imperial structures and, finally, to the0declaration of Christianity as the only allowed religion in the Roman Empire. The papers summoned in this volume tackle this complex historical phase from a number of 0 perspectives (from Church history and theology to political and juridical history), following a strongly multidisciplinary approach.

Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy

Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy
Author: A. Edward Siecienski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351976117

Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy brings together some of the English-speaking world’s leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor. For many, he remains a "sign of contradiction" (Luke 2:34) whose life and legacy generate intense debate. He was the first Christian emperor, protector of the Church, and eventually remembered as "equal to the apostles" for bringing about the Christianization of the Empire. Yet there is another side to Constantine’s legacy, one that was often neglected by his Christian hagiographers. Some modern scholars have questioned the orthodoxy of the so-called model Christian emperor, while others have doubted the sincerity of his Christian commitment, viewing his embrace of the faith as merely a means to a political end. Drawing together papers presented at the 2013 symposium at Stockton University commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, this volume examines the very questions that have for so long occupied historians, classicists, and theologians. The papers in this volume prove once again that Constantine is not so much a figure from the remote past, but an individual whose legacy continues to shape our present.

Life of Constantine

Life of Constantine
Author: Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 395
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780198149248

The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would continue. This English translation is the first based on modern critical editions. Its Introduction and Commentary open up the many important issues the Life of Constantine raises.

Constantine and the Conversion of Europe

Constantine and the Conversion of Europe
Author: A. H. M. Jones
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1446547051

Constantine the Great was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD. As emperor, Constantine enacted many administrative, financial, social, and military reforms to strengthen the empire. The government was restructured and civil and military authority separated. A new gold coin, the solidus, was introduced to combat inflation. It would become the standard for Byzantine and European currencies for more than a thousand years.

Eusebius' Life of Constantine

Eusebius' Life of Constantine
Author: Eusebius
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1999-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191588474

Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a seventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical editions produced this century make a new English version necessary. The authors of this edition present the results of the recent scholarly debate, as well as their own researches so as to clarify the significance of Eusebius' work and introduce the student to the text and its interpretation, thus opening up the contentious issues. At face value much of what Eusebius wrote is false. This book shows how, once his partisan interpretations and rhetoric are properly understood, both Eusebius' text and the documents it contains give vital historical insights.

The First Thousand Years

The First Thousand Years
Author: Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300118848

Describes the first 1,000 years of Christian history, from the early practices and beliefs through the conversion of Constantine as well as documenting its growth to communities in Ethiopia, Armenia, Central Asia, India and China.

Getting to Know the Church Fathers

Getting to Know the Church Fathers
Author: Bryan M. Litfin
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2016-07-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493404784

A Trusted Introduction to the Church Fathers This concise introduction to the church fathers connects evangelical students and readers to twelve key figures from the early church. Bryan Litfin engages readers with actual people, not just abstract doctrines or impersonal events, to help them understand the fathers as spiritual ancestors in the faith. The first edition has been well received and widely used. This updated and revised edition adds chapters on Ephrem of Syria and Patrick of Ireland. The book requires no previous knowledge of the patristic period and includes original, easy-to-read translations that give a brief taste of each writer's thought.