Constantinianism refers to those policies said to be enacted, encouraged, or personally favored by Constantine the Great, a 4th century Roman Emperor. In particular, it may refer to any of the following.

• It may refer to the practice of Religious tolerance as mandated in the Edict of Milan.

• It may refer to a tendency to exuberance due of the subsequent rise of Christianity, sometimes called Christian triumphalism.

• It may refer to Constantine's patronage of Christianity.

• It may refer to the doctrines of the Council of Nicea, which Constantine promoted.

• It may refer to the practice of state control of or influence over the Church, sometimes called Erastianism.

• It may refer to Constantine's alleged preference for Arianism over Catholicism.

• It may refer to Constantine's alleged preference for Orthodoxy over heresy.

• It may refer to the corruption of Christian doctrine that is alleged to have taken place during or because of the reign of Constantine, sometimes called the Great Apostasy or more particularly the Constantinian shift.

• It may refer to the notion that Constantine received his mandate from God, as in the Divine Right of Kings.

• It may refer to the notion that Roman Emperors have authority over the Church, sometimes called Caesaropapism.

• It may refer to certain Roman Catholic criticisms of Separation of Church and State found, for instance, in the Syllabus of Errors.

• It may refer to certain Protestant doctrines such as Reconstructionism and Dominionism.

[edit] See also

• Constantinian shift
• Religious liberty
• Diet of Worms
• Reconstructionism & Dominionism
• Separation of Church and State
• Caesaropapism

[edit] External links

• Anti-Constantinianism
• A Liberal Evangelical's attempt to build a Liberal version of 'Constantinianism'