Nathan Israel Smolin, an independent scholar, completed his PhD in Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A brilliant book. Smolin's premise is original, and highly interesting: as a usurper, Constantine needed to justify his rule, and after casting his lot with the formerly oppressed Christians, he developed a theology in which he became the 'cosmic emperor,' playing the same role on earth that the Christian god played in the universe. * Harold Drake, University of California, Santa Barbara *