Defending Constantine : the twilight of an empire and the dawn of Christendom / Peter J. Leithart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leithart, Peter J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337--Influence.

Constantine.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Rome--History--Constantine I, the Great, 306-337.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leithart reads the original ancient, the seminal secondary, and lots of other sources to contend that Constantine was a believer and a conciliator who sought theological agreement for the political stability it brought. Contra the influential interpretation of Anabaptist theologian John Howard Yoder, Leithart maintains that when Constantine is understood in historical context, his disestablishment of pagan religion opens a place for a Christian understanding of sacrifice and of the significance of the kingdom of God.--From publisher description

Contents:

Sanguinary edicts

Jupiter on the throne

Instinctu divinitatus

By this sign

Liberator ecclesiae

End of sacrifice

Common bishop

Nicaea and after

Seeds of evangelical law

Justice for all

One God, one emperor

Pacifist church?

Christian empire, Christian mission

Rome baptized.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780830868162

083086816X

OCLC:

923180768