TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leithart,Peter J.
TI  - Defending Constantine: the twilight of an empire and the dawn of Christendom 
AV  - BR180 .L45 2010
U1  - 270.1092 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - IVP Academic
KW  - Constantine
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Church / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / History
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Constantine I, the Great, 306-337
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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