THE EMPEROR'S STATE OF GRACE.(Constantine and Christianity) From: History Today | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Freeman, Charles | COPYRIGHT 2001 History Today Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Charles Freeman considers whether Constantine's famous adoption of Christianity was a spiritual conversion or an act of political expediency.

THE STORY OF CONSTANTINE and Christianity is often simply told. It is AD 312. Constantine, the Augustus or senior emperor of the western Roman empire, confronts the usurper Maxentius who holds Rome and the African provinces. Alerted by a vision that the Christian God is on his side, Constantine decorates the shields of his men with...

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