RT Review
T1 [Rezension von: Schmidt, Simon P., Church and World]
JF A journal of church and state
VO 63
IS 2
SP 324
OP 325
A1 Pitts, Jamie
A2 Schmidt, Simon P.
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/176421482X
AB Danish theologian Simon Schmidt’s book explores, but does not attempt to resolve, the perennial question of what it means for Christians to be “in the world but not of it” by reviewing three paradigmatic interpretations of the so-called Constantinian shift. Adopting a “postliberal” stance toward theology, including church history, as a discipline of the church, Schmidt offers close readings of Eusebius of Caesarea’s Vita Constantini, Augustine’s City of God, and three essays by John Howard Yoder. Schmidt is interested both in what each author’s account of Constantine says about the church-world relation, and in the theological character of their historiographies.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/csab020