Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate

by John D. Roth (Editor), Peter J. Leithart (Afterword), Stanley Hauerwas (Foreword)

About the Contributor(s): John D. Roth is Professor of History at Goshen College, where he also serves as editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review and director of the Mennonite Historical Library. He is the author of numerous books and articles on subjects related to the Radical Reformation and contemporary Anabaptist and Mennonite theology, including Teaching that Why Anabaptist-Mennonite Education Matters (2011).

Genres: Religion

216 pages, Hardcover

First published June 27, 2013

About the author

Department chair, Professor of History, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
Director, Mennonite Historical Library
Editor, Mennonite Quarterly Review

Education:
BA, Goshen College, 1981
MA, University of Chicago, 1983
PHD, University of Chicago, 1989

Reviews

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a collection of politely critical responses to Peter Leithart's Defending Constantine, along with a brief reply by Leithart at the end. The reviewers are all sympathetic to Leithart's target, John Howard Yoder.

The two responses that really stood out were Alan Kreider's challenge on the grounds of ancient church history and D. Stephen Long's systematic application of Yoder's principles from Christian Witness to the State. William Cavanaugh's chapter is also interesting, though somewhat more theologically liberal than I expected. The rest of the selections were interesting but not nearly as good.