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For well over a millennium the civilization of Western Europe was “Christendom.” Christianity was the dominant religion, buttressed by social and legal structures. This volume studies Christendom at its origins, bringing the insights of leading scholars in the fields of ancient history, theology, patristics, and liturgy to bear on aspects of Europe’s Christianization. From a missiological...

and baptism? It is possible, but improbable, that Constantine wanted to play it both ways and remain amphibiously pagan as well as Christian; his progression towards Christian adherence seems erratic but genuine. Nevertheless Constantine (according to Eusebius) had amphibolia—he was hesitant, of two minds.56 Consider what it would have meant for an emperor to become a catechumen. It would have meant, according to well-established tradition, a scrutiny of his lifestyle; hardly a non-violent soul,
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