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Category Archives: Constantine
Constantine and the Church 5 – Who was at Nicaea?
Within the Church, of course, other than granting Christianity legal status, Constantine is perhaps best known for calling the council at Nicaea that eventually came to be recognized as the first ecumenical council. Yes, that phrasing is important. You see, there were many councils before Nicaea (though none with an emperor present) and there were [...]
Constantine and the Church 4 – Church Buildings
I hadn’t actually planned this post in the series. But a few days ago the Internet Monk had a post on Architecture for the Glory of God and some of the comments in particular caught my eye. It seems like a number of those commenting had this strange idea that churches (the buildings) somehow began [...]
Posted in Constantine Tagged atrium, chopping block, constantine, family dwellings, glory of god, lydia, philemon, philippi 1 Comment
Constantine and the Church 3 – What was the Church to do?
Before I dive into Nicaea, about which myths seem to abound, I wanted to reflect on some of the implications of the earlier posts in this series. It should be clear by this point that the Church and those within it had no real input on whether they would be persecuted or not. There are [...]
Constantine and the Church 2 – Church Under Persecution
We typically refer to the Church from the time of Nero to the time of Constantine as the Church under persecution. While that is true, it’s also true that the level and intensity of persecution waxed and waned a number of times during that period. The penultimate persecution was under the Emperor Valerian which ended [...]
Posted in Constantine Tagged christianity, christians, constantine, diocletian, emperor valerian, oracle of apollo 1 Comment
Constantine and the Church 1 – Politics of Rome
I think that sometimes, when people think of the Roman Empire in general and Constantine in particular, they don’t have a grasp for the full complexity of the situation. For instance, people often think of Rome having a single emperor at any particular point in time. But that was not true for broad periods of [...]
Posted in Constantine Tagged caesar, constantine, constantius, eastern roman empire, emperor diocletian, emperor galerius, nicomedia, tetrarchy, western roman empire 1 Comment
Constantine and the Church 0 – Series Intro
As I was writing my series on the history of the belief and practice of the Eucharist, I decided I would next reflect on the pervasive modern myth that Constantine somehow subverted or radically changed the Church. This myth surfaces in a wide variety of ways. Some people assert that the dogma of the Trinity [...]
Posted in Constantine Tagged apostles, christianity, constantine, history of the church, trinity 1 Comment
Constantine and the Church 6 – Outcome of the Council