El elogio del emperador Constantino en la literatura cristiana de su época

Esteban Moreno Resano

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Published: Mar 1, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15581/007.22.2193

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Moreno Resano, E. (2013). Praise of the Emperor Constantine in the Christian literature of the period. Anuario De Historia De La Iglesia, 22, 83-109. https://doi.org/10.15581/007.22.2193

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Esteban Moreno Resano e-mail

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Universidad de Zaragoza.

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The Christian writers of Constantine’s period used the genre of eulogy of the prince in order to express their compliance with the new religious policy implemented after the Edict of Milan in 313, but also to construct a Christian doctrinal discourse in accordance with that policy. To do so, they adopted the vocabulary and forms of profane literature, endowing them with new semantic values that fitted with Christian doctrine. None the less, the composition of these works arose under very particular circumstance, and their contents are confined to certain very concrete ideas, so they rarely express views about the institutional power from a Christian viewpoint. The exception to this is to be found in the work of Eusebius of Caesarea, who wrote the first political theology of Christianity.

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Constantine, early Christian literature, eulogy

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Vol 22 (2013)

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Research Studies: Imperial power and religious tolerance

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