Important book to say the least. A review from Stanley Hauerwas: http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201010/2172849851.html ( )

Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor, has too long been a whipping boy of nearly anyone who needed a scapegoat to pin their misgivings about Christian history on -- from John Howard Yoder, to whose theories Leithart dedicates a good part of this book to refuting, to Dan Brown, with his godawful "Da Vinci Code," to the extreme conspiracy nuts like Acharya S and Peter Joseph, maker of "Zeitgeist, the Movie." Constantine has been the boogeyman of those with a historical bone to pick -- or who think they have such a bone to pick -- for a very long time. Ask the average person about Constantine and chances are you'll hear about a cynical politician who manipulated the Church to serve his own ends and fabricated the New Testament and the divinity of Christ. Finally, with this wonderful book, all of those myths, from the extreme left to the extreme right, have been laid to rest in one fell swoop. This book is a must-read in the study of Christian history. ( )