The boundary between the human and the divine
Reducing these various stories and assertions to a single set of dialectically defensible assertions that all can agree on has proved, over two millennia,...
Theodosius left behind
What Theodosius left behind, more important than his sons, was a religious landscape denuded of the familiar and the emergence, by encouragement and by...
Constantine postponed baptism
Constantine postponed baptism until he was on his deathbed to assure himself of heaven without risking post-baptismal relapse. The half century that followed saw...