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Authors: Peter J. Leithart
Tags: #Non-Fiction
Peter J. Leithart
To Dr. Paul W. Leithart
Beloved Physician, Father, Patriot, Friend Above all, Follower of Jesus
Constantine has been a whipping boy for a long time, and still is today. In popular culture (Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code), among bestselling historians (James Carroll, Constantine's Sword), and among theologians (Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder and their followers), his name is identified with tyranny, anti-Semitism, hypocrisy, apostasy and heresy. He was a hardened power-politician who never really became Christian, a hypocrite who harnessed the energy of the church for his own political ends, a murderer, a usurper, an egotist.