This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

Some 1,700 years ago, bishops from all over the Roman Empire gathered in what is now Turkey to hash out Christian doctrine.

Apr. 2—Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire.

The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo and ...

The Emperor Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire and the man who ended that empire’s persecution of Christianity, died this week (May 22) in 337 AD, having lived a life that ...

Was Constantine the Great a patron of the Church, convert, pagan, true Christian or pagan conniver? For many Christians, he represents all that was wrong with Church-state relations in the ancient and ...

In the past, people attributed the growth of Christianity to miracles. Gregory the Illuminator (257-328) purportedly healed King Tiridates (250-330) of Armenia. Tiridates and his countrymen then ...

And Constantine was a consummate pragmatist and a consummate politician. And I think he gauged well the upsurge in interest and support Christianity was receiving, and so played up to that very nicely ...