Eusebius: Circumspect Historian of Constantine?
Impossible, say you?
Andrew Koperski
Impossible, say you?
Ancient Christianity is not necessarily the same as medieval Christianity.
A few preliminary musings as to what I expect to find in the book.
Even before Constantine, the overall impression is that Christians not uncommonly served the empire in various capacities.
Jesus, says Chrysostom, was more worried about Mary's soul than parental courtesy.
Come for the Platonist critiques of Stoic positions, stay for the C. S. Lewis reference.
Christ's psychological profile would have had the Stoa squirming uncomfortably.
Is Paul making a point about politics?
A reminder that Rome was not a proto-fascist or proto-Stalinist system.
Would Augustine have tolerated NFP?
