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A Century of Miracles (Paperback)
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A Century of Miracles (Paperback)
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The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a
miracle. Traditionally, in the year 312, the Roman emperor
Constantine experienced a "vision of the Cross" that led him to
convert to Christianity and to defeat his last rival to the
imperial throne; and, in 394, a divine wind carried the emperor
Theodosius to victory at the battle of the Frigidus River. In A
Century of Miracles, historian H. A. Drake explores the role
miracle stories such as these played in helping Christians, pagans,
and Jews think about themselves and each other. These stories, he
concludes, bolstered Christian belief that their god wanted the
empire to be Christian. Most importantly, they help explain how,
after a century of trumpeting the power of their god, Christians
were able to deal with their failure to protect the city of Rome
from a barbarian sack by the Gothic army of Alaric in 410.
Thoroughly researched within a wide range of faiths and belief
systems, A Century of Miracles provides an absorbing illumination
of this complex, polytheistic, and decidedly mystical phenomenon.
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