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Re: Constantine and Christians
2006.04.03 14:58

My general answer is that Helena and Eutropia were extremely influential over Constantine when it came to Christianity--Christianity was at that time pro women's rights. Constantine may have also had a great dislike of the more homosexually oriented Pagan cults--now there's a future irony.

Did Constantine see the embrace of Christianity as a way to "re-unify" the Empire?

I'd say that Constantine's main reason for presiding over the Arian Controversy was to establish himself as (still) head over "church" and state.

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