Defending Constantine
Subtitle: the twilight of an empire and the dawn of Christendom
By: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780830827220
Subjects: Church history; Influence; History
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-366) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Sanguinary edicts --; title: Jupiter on the throne --; title: Instinctu divinitatus --; title: By this sign --; title: Liberator ecclesiae --; title: End of sacrifice --; title: Common bishop --; title: Nicaea and after --; title: Seeds of evangelical law --; title: Justice for all --; title: One God, one emperor --; title: Pacifist church? --; title: Christian empire, Christian mission --; title: Rome baptized.