The Emperor Constantine is one of those people who could very ably defend himself while alive, but now, having the misfortune of being dead, has become a whipping boy for church historians and theologians alike. In his book Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christen... ...more

It is common in Christian circles today to find the fault of the Church’s many ills and problems today set squarely on the shoulders of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. He manipulated the support of the Church to his own advantage, to consolidate his own power. He contr... ...more

Defending Constantine is a phenomenal new book by Peter Leithart that seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of the first Christian emperor of Rome. It seems that Constantine, by converting to the Christian faith, permanently securing Christians against persecution, financing new churches, appointi... ...more

Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor, has too long been a whipping boy of nearly anyone who needed a scapegoat to pin their misgivings about Christian history on -- from John Howard Yoder, to whose theories Leithart dedicates a good part of this book to refuting, to Dan Brown,... ...more

Well this is probably a book that all Mennonites should read or anyone else that likes to decry the fall of the pure early church into "Christendom". I'll let you know.
Ok. This book was really fantastic. Not because Leithart is correct on all accounts but because he is so close to being right on... ...more