The article began to lose me in the first paragraph: “This battle—occurring exactly 1,700 years ago—is one of the most important events in the history of Christendom, since it was through Constantine’s victory that Christendom began.”
I am sure Dr. Wiker knows more about history than I ever will. However, his grasp of Christianity is tenuous. It wouldn’t be the first time such a thing happened.
I believe he is making a distinction between Christianity and Christendom. Through Constantine’s conversion, Christinity began to assume a political and territorial aspect, ie “Christendom”.
Christendom was indeed founded by Constantine in 312. And Henry VIII destroyed it to serve the carnal appetites of loins and his treasury in 1534.
Christendom is not the same as Christianity, but is another way of saving Christian Empire. Constantine was not the first ruler to bow before Christ, and will not be the last. For so it is promised. Until he comes, we shall have wars and worse. Men remain wicked, and we seem to slide back one step for every two we climb up to that summit, which is still obscured by the clouds, each one of us with a devil on his back. But one day those clouds will part and we shall see that glory, I mean all of us, and pity those who close their eyes to it.
Christendom is not the same as Christianity, but is another way of saving Christian Empire. Constantine was not the first ruler to bow before Christ, and will not be the last. For so it is promised. Until he comes, we shall have wars and worse. Men remain wicked, and we seem to slide back one step for every two we climb up to that summit, which is still obscured by the clouds, each one of us with a devil on his back. But one day those clouds will part and we shall see that glory, I mean all of us, and pity those who close their eyes to it.