Defending Constantine : the twilight of an empire and the dawn of Christendom /
Leithart, Peter J.
Defending Constantine : the twilight of an empire and the dawn of Christendom / Peter J. Leithart. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, �2010. - 373 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and indexes.
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.
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.
9780830827220 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830827226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010019863
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 --Influence.
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
30 - 600
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Rome--History--Constantine I, the Great, 306-337.
Rome (Empire)
BR 180 .L45 2010
Defending Constantine : the twilight of an empire and the dawn of Christendom / Peter J. Leithart. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, �2010. - 373 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and indexes.
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.
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.
9780830827220 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830827226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010019863
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 --Influence.
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
30 - 600
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Rome--History--Constantine I, the Great, 306-337.
Rome (Empire)
BR 180 .L45 2010