Constantine's conversion to Christianity, I think, has to be understood in a particular way. And that is, I don't think we can understand Constantine as converting to Christianity as an ...

The Emperor Constantine I earned his place in history in 313 A.D. when he legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire with the Edict of Milan and gave Christians a broad range of new rights ...

Emperor Constantine (ca A.D. 280– 337) reigned over a major transition in the Roman Empire—and much more. His acceptance of Christianity and his establishment of an eastern capital city, which ...

Christianity from a persecuted sect to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. It examines key events such as the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, which legalized Christianity, and the Edict of ...

By A.D. 1300, Christianity was the world’s dominant religion and the foundation for Western civilization — shaping art, architecture, ... Constantine the Great (c. 272-337) ...

“Before Constantine, Christianity had suffered bloody persecution in the Roman Empire,” Sis said. “After his military victory in 312 over Maxentius, his brother-in-law, ...

Apr. 2—Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire.

Constantine’s act of “calling himself a Christian and pouring in that flood of wealth and power on the church,” John Wesley charged in 1787, “was productive of more evil to the church than all the ten ...

Trump is hardly the first leader to recognize Christianity’s political potential. Seventeen centuries ago, Constantine, emperor of the Roman Empire, faced a fracturing religious landscape.