This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The ...

The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo and ...

Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire. The Rev.

Was Constantine the Great a patron of the Church, convert, pagan, true Christian or pagan conniver? For many Christians, he represents all that was wrong with Church-state relations in the ancient and ...

First published in 2004, in this new edition of his life of Constantine, Prof. Odahl (Oregon State) gives us a revised although by no means hagiographic work. Neither does Odahl depict Constantine as ...

New York: The Overlook Press, 2010. Pp. xxvi, 358. Illus., maps, gloss., abbrev., biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN: 1590203240 It is difficult to write a biography of ...

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Constantine ends not converting, technically, to Christianity, but becoming a patron of one particular branch of the church. It happens to be the branch of the church that has the Old Testament as ...