The Cross before ConstantineAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Saturday 1 August 2015
Description
This book brings together, for the first time, the relevant material evidence demonstrating Christian use of the cross prior to Constantine. Bruce W. Longenecker upends a longstanding consensus that the cross was not a Christian symbol until Constantine appropriated it to consolidate his power in the fourth century.
Longenecker presents a wide variety of artifacts from across the Mediterranean basin that testify to the use of the cross as a visual symbol by some pre-Constantinian Christians. Those artifacts interlock with literary witnesses from the same period to provide a consistent and robust portrait of the cross as a pre-Constantinian symbol of Christian devotion.
The material record of the pre-Constantinian period illustrates that Constantine did not invent the cross as a symbol of Christian faith; for an impressive number of Christians before Constantines reign, the cross served as a visual symbol of commitment to a living deity in a dangerous world.
You may also like ...
by
Hardback
21 Feb 2023
Civil wars
€54.93
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
24 Nov 2018
Physiology
€39.77
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews