This book brings together, for the first time, the relevant
material evidence demonstrating Christian use of the cross prior to
Constantine. Bruce W. Longenecker upends a longstanding consensus
that the cross was not a Christian symbol until Constantine
appropriated it to consolidate his power in the fourth century.
Longenecker presents a wide variety of artifacts from across the
Mediterranean basin that testify to the use of the cross as a
visual symbol by some pre-Constantinian Christians. Those artifacts
interlock with literary witnesses from the same period to provide a
consistent and robust portrait of the cross as a pre-Constantinian
symbol of Christian devotion. The material record of the
pre-Constantinian period illustrates that Constantine did not
invent the cross as a symbol of Christian faith,- for an impressive
number of Christians before Constantine's reign, the cross served
as a visual symbol of commitment to a living deity in a dangerous
world.
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