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.

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.

Constantine's Sword

Constantine's Sword
Author: James Carroll
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618219087

A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."

Constantine the Emperor

Constantine the Emperor
Author: David Stone Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0190231629

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