{"id":159,"date":"2017-10-28T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2017-10-28T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T08:15:48","slug":"why-did-constantine-favor-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/159\/why-did-constantine-favor-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Constantine favor Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/vasilief\/default.asp\">Vasilief : History of the Byzantine Empire<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The empire from Constantine the Great to Justinian<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The conversion of Constantine\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Historians and theologians have been primarily interested in the causes of Constantine\u2019s \u201cconversion.\u201d Why did Constantine favor Christianity? Should his attitude be viewed only as an indication of his political wisdom? Did he see in Christianity merely a means of gaining his political aims? Or did he adopt Christianity because of his own inner conviction? Or, finally, was this \u201cconversion\u201d influenced by both political motives and a spiritual leaning toward Christianity?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"small10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/vasilief\/constantine-conversion.asp\">Vasilief : The Conversion of Constantine<\/a>: read complete. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/greek-resources-constantinople.asp\">Byzantine resources \/ Constantinople<\/a> ||| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/greek-word.asp\">Greek Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start of Vasilief : History of the Byzantine Empire\u00a0 The empire from Constantine the Great to Justinian The conversion of Constantine\u00a0 Historians and theologians have been primarily interested in the causes of Constantine\u2019s \u201cconversion.\u201d Why did Constantine favor Christianity? Should his attitude be viewed only as an indication of his political wisdom? Did he see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[9,13,10],"tags":[118,166,557,348,89,1145,1144,1142,350,1143,1146],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-greek-history","category-orthodox-christianity","tag-byzantium","tag-christianity","tag-constantine","tag-constantine-the-great","tag-constantinople","tag-conversion","tag-history-of-the-byzantine-empire","tag-justinian","tag-new-rome","tag-political-wisdom","tag-vasilief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}