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Constantine and the divine mind : the imperial quest for primitive monotheism / Kegan A. Chandler ; foreword by Dale Tuggy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, 2019.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:
  • 1532689942
  • 9781532689949
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 270.2 23
LOC classification:
  • BR180
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Challenge of Monotheism -- Solar Monotheism in the Late Roman Empire -- An Empire in Turmoil -- A History of Religion: The Decline of Monotheism -- Constantine as Divine Agent -- The Divine Mind and Pagan Monotheism -- Constantine's Dream -- Nicaea and Homoousios -- Constantine's Program -- Constantine the Christian -- Death of a Dream -- Selected Bibliography
Summary: "Chandler offers a new portrait of Constantine as a deeply religious man on a quest to restore what he believed was once the original religion of mankind: monotheism. By tracing this theological quest and important historical trends in Roman paganism, Chandler illuminates the process by which Constantine embraced Christianity, and how the reasons for that embrace continued to manifest in his religious policies. In this we discover not only Constantine's personal religious journey, but the reason why Christianity was first developed into a world power"--Book cover.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2580507

Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Challenge of Monotheism -- Solar Monotheism in the Late Roman Empire -- An Empire in Turmoil -- A History of Religion: The Decline of Monotheism -- Constantine as Divine Agent -- The Divine Mind and Pagan Monotheism -- Constantine's Dream -- Nicaea and Homoousios -- Constantine's Program -- Constantine the Christian -- Death of a Dream -- Selected Bibliography

"Chandler offers a new portrait of Constantine as a deeply religious man on a quest to restore what he believed was once the original religion of mankind: monotheism. By tracing this theological quest and important historical trends in Roman paganism, Chandler illuminates the process by which Constantine embraced Christianity, and how the reasons for that embrace continued to manifest in his religious policies. In this we discover not only Constantine's personal religious journey, but the reason why Christianity was first developed into a world power"--Book cover.