
Church and World
Eusebius's, Augustine's, and Yoder's Interpretations of the Constantinian Shift
Simon P. Schmidt(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 14. February 2020
180 pages
978-1-5326-5154-0 (ISBN)
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"In the world but not of it"--an expression that has been interpreted in a multitude of ways. With the publication of Rod Dreher's much-debated book The Benedict Option in 2017, the question of just how the church is to exist "in but not of the world" is once again on the minds of many. To provide answers true to the context in which the Western church now finds itself, it is worth first investigating how the question has been answered in the past. In determining what to do today, it helps to understand how we got here in the first place.
At the beginning of the fourth century, people were persecuted for being Christians; by the end of the fourth century, people were persecuted for not being Christians. This book is an academic investigation of how three paradigmatic theologians interpreted this so-called Constantinian shift: Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260-339), Augustine of Hippo (354-430), and John Howard Yoder (1927-1997).
Surprising similarities between the theology of Eusebius and Yoder become apparent, and underlying theological structures of how to interpret what it looks like to be a community that follows Christ are revealed.
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Eusebius's, Augustine's, and Yoder's Interpretations of the Constantinian Shift
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Eusebius's, Augustine's, and Yoder's Interpretations of the Constantinian Shift
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Simon P. Schmidt holds a Cand.theol. from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an MTS degree from Duke Divinity School, USA. His critical work on the relationship between church and state earned him a gold medal for academic achievement, paradoxically awarded by Danish queen Margrethe II of Denmark, head of the Lutheran Church of Denmark. He is currently employed at Lund University (Sweden).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I: The Constantinian Shift-An Introduction
- Chapter 1: History and Theology
- 1.1 Problem
- 1.2 Material
- 1.3 Methodology
- 1.4 Structure
- Part II: An Early Interpretation
- Chapter 2: Eusebius of Caesarea
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Constantine
- 2.3 Eusebius
- 2.4 Eusebius's Interpretation of the Constantinian Shift
- 2.5 The Contemporary Debate
- 2.6 Conclusion
- Part III: A Corrective
- Chapter 3: Augustine of Hippo
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Augustine and Eusebius (Exterior Differences)
- 3.3 Augustine's Interpretation of the Constantinian Shift
- 3.4 The Contemporary Debate
- 3.5 Augustine and Eusebius (Interior Differences)
- 3.6 Conclusion
- Part IV: A Current Interpretation
- Chapter 4: John Howard Yoder
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Yoder's Interpretation of the Constantinian Shift
- 4.3 The Contemporary Debate
- 4.4 Yoder and the Ancient Interpretations
- 4.5 Conclusion
- Part V: Perspectives
- Chapter 5: Church, History, and Theology
- 5.1 Three Interpretations of the Place of the Church in the World
- 5.2 The Validity of Theological History-Writing
- 5.3 A Way Forward for the Church
- Bibliography
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