TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chandler,Kegan A.
TI  - Constantine and the divine mind: the imperial quest for primitive monotheism 
SN  - 1532689942
AV  - BR180 
U1  - 270.2 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Wipf & Stock
KW  - Constantine
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Rome
KW  - Église
KW  - Histoire
KW  - ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
KW  - Église et État
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - fast
KW  - Primitive and early church
KW  - Religion
KW  - Constantine I, the Great, 306-337
KW  - 306-337 (Constantin Ier)
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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