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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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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Cross before Constantine
• Subtitle: The Early Life of a Christian Symbol
• Author: Bruce W. Longenecker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• EAN: 9781451490305
• ISBN: 1451490305
• ID: 09256499
• Publisher: 1517 Media
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 227 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. July 2015

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