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 ...

It is a great educational journey backward historical, cultural, political, religious that helps shed light on the roots of ...

Following his battlefield conversion, Constantine established Christianity as the official religion of Rome, and he decided that Christ's birth should become a major focus of the Christian year.

Then the unthinkable in the Roman world happened. Constantine’s forces painted their shields with an early symbol of Christianity, the Chi-Rho. The symbol represented the first two Greek letters ...

Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th Century as the one that sealed Christianity’s fate. This was the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Once Christianity was ...

Around six years later, back in Italy, Constantine converted from paganism to Christianity. His "epiphany" was said to have happened on the eve of battle with a competing Emperor, Maxentius.

When evaluating how Christianity adopted this firm stance on monogamy, Lawrence suggests it can be traced back to Constantine and Rome. Christian Roman culture was both monogamous and patriarchal ...