@inbook{1c6453a269394ad69fb6c99a5f8f8d90,
title = "The 'Servant of God': Divine Favour and Instrumentality Under Constantine, 318-25",
abstract = "This article focuses on the doctrine of divine favour and instrumentality as viewed from the emperor's own perspective, in relation to the early development of the {\textquoteleft}Arian controversy{\textquoteright} as far as the Council of Nicaea. While modern writers have focused on explicit statements by Constantine to suggest that unity was the emperor's highest priority, this article reveals a pattern by which he sought to manage divine favour and argues that doing so effectively was of primary importance to him. Such a shift in understanding the emperor's priorities adds to the range of explanations for his later apparent inconsistencies as the actual achievement of unity continually eluded him.",
keywords = "Constantine, church and state, church and empire, divine favour, early Christianity",
author = "Andrew Pottenger",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
doi = "doi.org/10.1017/stc.2017.3",
language = "English",
volume = "54",
series = "Studies in Church History",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "31--45",
editor = "Stewart Brown and Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer",
booktitle = "Studies in Church History, Volume 54",
address = "United Kingdom",
}