
Constantine Revisited
Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate
John D. Roth(Editor)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 27. June 2013
216 pages
978-1-62189-754-5 (ISBN)
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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 subservient to the civil authority of the state, brought a definitive end to pacifism as a central teaching of the early church, and redefined the character of Christian catechesis and missions.
In 2010, Peter J. 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 John Howard Yoder.
The essays gathered here in response to Leithart reflect 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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Eugene
United States
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John D. Roth is Professor of History at Goshen College, where he also serves as editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review and director of the Mennonite Historical Library. He is the author of numerous books and articles on subjects related to the Radical Reformation and contemporary Anabaptist and Mennonite theology, including Teaching that Transforms: Why Anabaptist-Mennonite Education Matters (2011).
Content
- Title Page
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: A Yoderian Rejoinder to Peter J. Leithart's
- Chapter 2: "Converted" but Not Baptized
- Chapter 3: Against Christianity and For Constantine
- Chapter 4: What Constantine Has to Teach Us
- Chapter 5: Yoderian Constantinianism?
- Chapter 6: Defending Constantine Taken Seriously
- Chapter 7: The Emperor's New Clothes332
- Chapter 8: History and Figural Reading
- Chapter 9: Leithart's Defending Constantine
- Chapter 10: Is There a Christian Ethic for Emperors?
- Chapter 11: Constantine and Myths of the Fall of the Church
- Chapter 12: Afterword
- Bibliography
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