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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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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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  • 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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