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	Constantinian shift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Constantinian shift is a term used by Anabaptist and Post-Christendom theologians, to describe the gradual shift towards Christendom.
		Critics of the merger of church and state point to this shift of the beginning of the era of Constantinianism when Christianity and the will of God gradually came to be identified with the will of the ruling elite.
		Augustine of Hippo was an apologist for the Constantinian shift and many of his writings attempt to justify the association of Christianity with empire.
	constantinian-shift.mindbit.com (323 words)

	Constantinian shift Biography,info
		Constantinian shift is a term used by Anabaptist and Post-Christendom theologians to describe the political and theological aspects of the 4th century process of Constantine's legitimization of Christianity.
		The conclusions of Constantinian shift would be to deny an active movement within the Christian communities of the time, and that movement's historical significance to the clarification of what it meant specifically to be a Christian (see Kallistos Ware and Communion and Intercommunion (Light and Life, 1980, ISBN 0-937032-20-4).
		Support for the theory of a Constantian shift also would be to deny that Constantine considered himself to be partial or sympathetic to Arianism due to the influence of his historian, Eusebius of Caesarea, as well as the Arian opposition leader (and relative to Constantine I), Eusebius of Nicomedia.
	music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_Constantinian_shift (1389 words)

	Baptism as Crossing a Social Boundary
		With shifts in the relation of the church to the surrounding culture and to competing Christian groups, however, the definition of the social boundary, and thence of its crossing, changed.
		In the third century, prior to the Constantinian shift, the boundary between the church and nonchurch seems to have been defined primarily in terms of the rejection of traditional polytheism and exclusive commitment to the cult of Christ and his Father.
		As the consequences of the Constantinian shift grew during the fourth century, the division of the church from the surrounding culture became increasingly vague.
	people.vanderbilt.edu /~james.p.burns/chroma/baptism/burnbapt.html (6515 words)

	Semlink / Stanley Hauerwas on Salvation (CLOSED)
		The power shift is necessary in that we need to be forever separated from the enemies of God for the full realization of salvation and the kingdom of God.
		One of the Constantinian assumptions presupposes that “every one must believe in something in order to keep the Empire afloat, if people were no longer classically pagan, they would have to be made imperially Christian.” As a result, Constantinian faith system provides Christians to share in their powers.
		The other of the Constantinian assumptions presupposes that if we use an intelligible language to communicate the Gospel to the Empire, we would be faithful to Christ even if we are live in the system of the world.
	www.gcts.edu /ockenga/semlink/bb/viewtopic.php?pid=16869 (8192 words)

	Constantinian
		Investiture of Constantinian knights in Palermo in 1812.
		Constantinian shift is a term used by Anabaptist and Post-Christendom...
		The Constantinian dynasty is an informal name for the loosely related ruling families of the Roman Empire from the rise of Diocletian in 284 to the death of Julian the Apostate in 363.
	www.sakeimperial.info /imperialorder/constantinian (1259 words)

	CALLED TOGETHER TO BE PEACEMAKERS
		By ‘Constantinian era,’ ‘change’ and ‘shift,’ we refer to the important developments that took place from the beginning of the fourth century onward.
		Both our traditions regret certain aspects of the Constantinian era, but we also recognize that some developments of the fourth and fifth centuries had roots in the early history of the church, and were in legitimate continuity with it.
		We can both agree that the study of the Constantinian era is significant for us in that it raises important questions regarding the mission of the church to the world and its methods of evangelisation.
	www.bridgefolk.net /calledtogether.htm (9174 words)

	Thinking Theologically about Church and State
		It dates back to the fourth century of the Christian era and is connected with the Roman emperor Constantine, under whom Christianity became established as the official religion of the Roman state.
		In the sixteenth century, the mainstream Reformers did not challenge this Constantinian arrangement, except that now a ruler could choose whether the established church was Catholic, Lutheran, or Reformed.
		The refusal of the Anabaptists to baptize infants was a political act, a rejection of the Constantinian model of the church, and an affirmation that commitment to Christ and the church should be chosen and that members should lead lives of discipleship.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2794 (3728 words)

	Occasional Papers - Constantinianism, Zionism, Diaspora - Toward a Political Theology of Exile and Return
		In brief, just as Christians must reject Constantinianism as an unwarranted compromise of the church’s mission, so, similarly, must Zionism be critiqued as an abandonment of Judaism’s mission: both Christians and Jews, I argue, are called to an exilic, diasporic faith which embodies an alternative politics amidst the Babylons of the world.
		It is therefore paradoxical and tragic, he continues “that Jews, who have suffered from Constantinian Christianity, have, at the moment when Christians have finally awoken to the devastating effects of that synthesis, plunged headlong into a Constantinian Judaism.
		Like Christianity in its Constantinian phase, Constantinian Judaism orients its texts and memory, and with that its religious rituals and intellectual endeavors, to serving the state, legitimating power, arguing in moral terms for policies that displace and disorient others, and silencing dissent.
	www.mcc.org /respub/occasional/28.html (11729 words)

	Episcopal Life
		Accordingly, a major theological shift took place based on a sociological reality: at first, there was wholesale baptism of adults, with none of the intensive catechumenal formation.
		The practical effects of this post-Constantinian shift with its significant elevation of the status of ordination severely flawed the theology of Baptism, resulting in some far reaching practical distortions in the life of the Church and its relationship to the world of daily life.
		But this is revolutionary thinking in a Church dominated by a Constantinian mind-set, which sees a hierarchial relationship between non-ordained and ordained, where it is the ministry of the non-ordained to assist the clergy in the workings of the institutional Church.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /26769_39327_ENG_HTM.htm (3903 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Donatist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Donatists refused to accept the decision of the council, their distaste for bishops who had collaborated with Rome came out of their broader view of the Roman empire.
		After the Constantinian shift, when other Christians accepted the emperor as a leader in the church, the Donatists continued to see the emperor as the devil.
		In particular, the birth of the Donatist movement came out of opposition to the appointment of Caecilian as bishop of Carthage in 312, because of his pro-government stance.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Donatist (1124 words)

	Street Corner Society » A teachable moment
		I think there’s a divide in the conception of what Christianity is about, the media tacitly recognize this and tend to avoid it because the secular outlook has no easy way to deal with such a deep conflict over issues.
		> But elements to be considered include the Constantinian shift in the 4th century, the emergence of dissident sects during the Protestant reformation, the post-enlightment Church-State detente, and the industrial (and post-industrial) organization of warfare in the last century.
		BibleTexts.com is an excellent resource for information about what you call the “Constantinian shift;” the main feature of this site is its prodigious archive of Christian texts from before that shift.
	www.strecorsoc.org /scs/wp-trackback.php?p=40 (688 words)

	Kaleo San Diego Church > Articles > Missio Ecclesia (part1)
		The Constantinian shift occurred with the church deciding to derive its significance through the association with the identity and purposes of the state.
		But the significance of Constantinianism was the idea that the church became the sponsor of the world, with “world” meaning the fallen rebellious creation.
		But with the Constantinian wedding of church and territorial state enabled by the Reformation, the outsider became the “infidel”, the incarnation of anti-faith.
	www.kaleochurch.com /article/Missio-Ecclesia-part1 (4739 words)

	Why all the fury over The Da Vinci Code? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Constantinian Shift is the term to describe the effect of Christians going from being dissidents to being the officially sanctioned religion of a predatory empire.
		Whereas Jesus taught that we can go directly to God, the church became a complex bureaucracy that existed to be served more than to serve.
		With the Constantinian Shift the church transformed from an instrument of love to a hammer to pound its enemies into submission.
	www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_richard__060516_why_all_the_fury_ove.htm (691 words)

	MWC - Third Round Of Mennonite-Catholic International Dialogue
		and (2) The impact of the Constantinian shift on the church.
		The interest in the question of peace arose because Mennonites are identified as one of the Historic Peace Churches, and because Catholics have addressed the issue of peace more intentionally in recent times, resulting in a series of statements being issued by the Vatican.
		Alan Kreider, a Mennonite representative from Elkhart, Indiana, USA, addressed the topic, "Conversion and Christendom: an Anabaptist Perspective," and Peter Nissen, a Catholic scholar from The Netherlands, spoke on, "The Impact of the Constantinian Shift on the Church."
	www.mwc-cmm.org /News/MWC/001213rls1.html (1129 words)

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		Augustinian influence promoted a growing emphasis on individual rites, and the Constantinian arrangement, which abolished any real distinction between church and world, further encouraged this growing emphasis on sacraments as rituals in and of themselves.
		His perception of the church and of Christian life was not Constantinian, but neither did he assume that all uses of traditional christological and trinitarian categories were necessarily bound to a Constantinian worldview.
		Those who are tempted to see such categories as merely a justification of the "Constantinian shift" sometimes have trouble recognizing how the christological reflections of the first several centuries represented a fundamental shift in how history and reality are to be conceived.
	www.goshen.edu /mqr/pastissues/jan04blough.html (9305 words)

	Direction: Confessing Jesus Christ from the “Margins”
		However, these arguments neglect to consider that the Constantinian shift happened in evolutionary fashion, that its beginnings are apparent already in the second century and its culmination is indeed later than Constantine.
		Finding an early version of the classic formula thus actually testifies to the evolutionary nature of the shift, and arguing that the Nicene-Chalcedonian formulas became widely accepted only later than the time of their proclamation further underscores that they reflect the church identified with the empire rather than the New Testament narrative of Jesus.
		For the modern peace church/believers church to retain Anselmian atonement is to put a Constantinian or established church atonement motif into free church ecclesiology.
	www.directionjournal.org /article/?966 (4668 words)

	FWB Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Donatist's distaste for bishops who had collaborated with Rome came out of their broader view of the Roman empire.
		After the Constantinian shift when other Christians accepted the emperor as the head of the church, the Donatists continued to see the emperor as the devil.
		In particular, the birth of the Donatist movement came out of opposition to the appointment of Caecilian as bishop of Carthage in 312 AD because of his pro-government stance.
	www.freebaptist.net /modules/wordbook/print.php?entryID=27 (430 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Martyr
		The Martyrdom of Polycarp, for instance, carefully pointed out that Polycarp had not sought out martyrdom but been arrested; another man, Quintus, had voluntarily come forward and had apostatized, which the writer cites as a warning against seeking martyrdom.
		With the Constantinian shift and the identification of the term Christianity with the Roman Empire, persecution ceased in the Roman Empire.
		Icon of Ignatius of Antioch being eaten by lions
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Martyr (2928 words)

	Martyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The saying was that "the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church".
		With the Constantinian shift and the identification of Christianity With the Roman Empire, the tables were turned and pagans sometimes became martyrs if they refused conversion to Christianity.
		It didn't take long before Augustine of Hippo authorized the use of force against heretics or fellow Christians who refused to fall in line With orthodoxy.
	martyr.iqnaut.net (773 words)

	Calvin Seminars in Christian Scholarship - Christian Scholarship... for What? - Perry Bush
		Even as someone speaking from the Anabaptist corner in the Evangelical world, with inherent suspicions of the kind of born-again constantinianism we Mennonites sometimes discern among other evangelicals, I can affirm the calls for a "Christian" approach to history coming from Marsden and others.
		I am merely suggesting here that, since themes of peace and justice are so central in scripture, that we be more intentional in including them in our writing of history.
		This brief discussion of the "Constantinian shift" is relevant to a discussion of the peace impulse in American Christianity because for four centuries American Christians and churches have faced the same kind of faustian bargain with the state of their own day, and have struggled accordingly.
	www.calvin.edu /scs/2001/conferences/125conf/papers/bushper.htm (3295 words)

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	How to Read Yoder: An Exercise in Pacifist Epistemology
		More specifically, by suggesting that there perennial questions for Christian ethics, Cahill appears to overlook the significance of the constantinian shift that Yoder takes to be central to his reading of the history of Christian attitudes to war and peace.
		That is to say, the violence of the constantinian church is linked to an epistemological attitude of closure.
		The ad hoc and dialogical character of his work is as important to his understanding of peace as are his arguments against the constantinian alignment of the church and world.
	www.peacetheology.org /papers/huebner.html (6033 words)

	Bluffton University - 2006-07 Academic Catalog: Religion
		The overall focus of the course is to present these doctrines both from the perspective of the church of the so-called Constantinian synthesis and from peace church perspectives.
		The first part of the course demonstrates how much of mainstream ethics reflects the church of the so-called Constantinian synthesis and then provides a peace church view of Christian ethics.
		Special attention will be paid to the rise of bishops, the formation of creeds, the Great Schism, the Constantinian Shift, the monastic era, pre-reformation free church movements and the reformation in its Anglican, Radical, Protestant and Catholic forms.
	www.bluffton.edu /catalog/courses/rel (2927 words)

	Called Together to be Peacemakers
		The question of recognizing or not recognizing one another's baptism requires further study.
		It is necessary to study, together, the history of the origin and development of the theology and practice of baptism for the purpose of ascertaining the origin of infant baptism, assessing the changes brought about with the Constantinian shift, the development of the doctrine of original sin, and other matters.
		It would be fruitful to have additional discussions of the relationship between the Catholic understanding of sacraments and the Mennonite understanding of ordinances, to further ascertain where additional significant convergences and divergences may lie.
	www.ecumenism.net /archive/2004_menn_rc_peacemakers.htm (20081 words)

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