Special Festive Edition: Where the New Religious Right (Badly) Misunderstands Constantine
'Tis the season for an airing of intellectual grievances!
'Tis the season for an airing of intellectual grievances!
In the year 324, on September 18 . . . .
Jacob Huneycutt reviews a new work on how early Americans viewed the Christian past.
Was Constantine really a Christian? What does it even mean to ask sucha question?
21st century intellectuals are realizing, as Constantine did, that only Christianity can hold our civilization together.
Constantine founded Christendom—or so we are told.
Prevailing evangelical understandings of what "Christendom" is or was are often hugely mistaken.
