Author : George Philip Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815411588
This sharp, engaging biography details the life and achievements of Constantine the Great who unified the Roman Empire, adopted Christianity as its official religion, and transferred the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople.
Author : Jonathan Bardill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521764238
"Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. The book explores the emperor's image as conveyed through literature, art, and architecture, and shows how Constantine reconciled the tradition of imperial divinity with his monotheistic faith. It demonstrates how the traditional themes and imagery of kingship were exploited to portray the emperor as the saviour of his people and to assimilate him to Christ. This is the first book to study simultaneously both archaeological and historical information to build a picture of the emperor's image and propaganda. It is extensively illustrated" --Provided by publisher.
Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : 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.
Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190231629
An authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine.
Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0465093523
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus-was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. As Tom Holland demonstrates, our morals and ethics are not universal but are instead the fruits of a very distinctive civilization. Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, science, and homosexuality are deeply rooted in a Christian seedbed. From Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo, Dominion tells the story of how Christianity transformed the modern world.
Author : John William Eadie
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Explores two areas of Constantine's religious affiliation: his conversion to Christianity and the specific details connected to his actions.
Author : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674165311
Here is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.
Author : H. A. Drake
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801871047
Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.
Author : David E. Henderson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1469631423
Constantine and the Council of Nicaea plunges students into the theological debates confronting early Christian church leaders. Emperor Constantine has sanctioned Christianity as a legitimate religion within the Roman Empire but discovers that Christians do not agree on fundamental aspects of their beliefs. Some have resorted to violence, battling over which group has the correct theology. Constantine has invited all of the bishops of the church to attend a great church council to be held in Nicaea, hoping to settle these problems and others. The first order of business is to agree on a core theology of the church to which Christians must subscribe if they are to hold to the "true faith." Some will attempt to use the creed to exclude their enemies from the church. If they succeed, Constantine may fail to achieve his goal of unity in both empire and church. The outcome of this conference will shape the future of Christianity for millennia. Free supplementary materials for this textbook are available at the Reacting to the Past website. Visit https://reacting.barnard.edu/instructor-resources, click on the RTTP Game Library link, and create a free account to download what is available.
Author : Eusebius
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1999-09-10
Category : 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.
