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The Cross Before Constantine

The Early Life of a Christian Symbol

  • Paperback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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For history enthusiasts exploring early Christian symbols

Debunks myths about the cross's origins in Christianity

You will gain insights into the rich heritage of your faith

This book reveals the early significance of the cross in Christianity before Constantine's era.

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 Constantine's reign, the cross served as a visual symbol of commitment to a living deity in a dangerous world.
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Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament SetThe Cross Before Constantine

  • Title

    The Cross Before Constantine

  • Author

    Bruce W. Longenecker

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    August 2015

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451490305

  • ISBN-10

    1451490305

  • Eden Code

    4330179

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