Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate

Book, 2013, 199 pp
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This collection of essays continues a long and venerable debate in the history of the Christian church regarding the legacy of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. For some, Constantine's conversion to Christianity early in the fourth century set in motion a process that made the church subsevient to the civil authority of the state, brought a definitve end to pacifism as a central teaching of the early church, and redefined the character of Christian catechesis and missions.

In 2010, Leithart published a widely read polemic, Defending Constantine, that vigorously refuted this interpretation. In its place, Leithart offered a thoroughgoing rehabilitation of Constantine and his legacy, while directing a rhetorical fusillade against the pacifist theology and ethics of the Mennonite theologian Howard Yoder.

The essays gathered here in response to Leithart reflects the insights of eleven leading theologians, historians, and ethicists from a wide range of theological traditions. They engage one of the most contentious issues in Christian church history in irenic fashion and at the highest level of scholarship. In so doing, they help ensure that the "Constantinian Debate" will continue to be lively, substantive, and consequential.

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