[Rezension von: Schmidt, Simon P., Church and World]

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 the...

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Main Author: Pitts, Jamie (Author)
Contributors: Schmidt, Simon P. (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 324-325
Review of:Church and World (La Vergne : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020) (Pitts, Jamie)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B State / Church / Konstantin, II., Römisches Reich, Kaiser 316-340 / Eusebius of Caesarea 260-339 / Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430 / Yoder, John Howard 1927-1997
IxTheo Classification:KBJ Italy
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csab020