All 20 Uses of
Constantine
in
The Da Vinci Code
- The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.†
Chpt 27-28
- The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great.†
Chpt 55-56 *
- "I thought Constantine was a Christian," Sophie said.†
Chpt 55-56
- In Constantine's day, Rome's official religion was sun worship—the cult of Sol Invictus, or the Invincible Sun—and Constantine was its head priest.†
Chpt 55-56
- In Constantine's day, Rome's official religion was sun worship—the cult of Sol Invictus, or the Invincible Sun—and Constantine was its head priest.†
Chpt 55-56
- Constantine decided something had to be done.†
Chpt 55-56
- Constantine was a very good businessman.†
Chpt 55-56
- Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Originally," Langdon said, "Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration day of the sun."†
Chpt 55-56
- During this fusion of religions, Constantine needed to strengthen the new Christian tradition, and held a famous ecumenical gathering known as the Council of Nicaea.†
Chpt 55-56
- By officially endorsing Jesus as the Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity who existed beyond the scope of the human world, an entity whose power was unchallengeable.†
Chpt 55-56
- Constantine's underhanded political maneuvers don't diminish the majesty of Christ's life.†
Chpt 55-56
- All we are saying is that Constantine took advantage of Christ's substantial influence and importance.†
Chpt 55-56
- Because Constantine upgraded Jesus' status almost four centuries after Jesus' death, thousands of documents already existed chronicling His life as a mortal man.†
Chpt 55-56
- To rewrite the history books, Constantine knew he would need a bold stroke.†
Chpt 55-56
- Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ's human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.†
Chpt 55-56
- Anyone who chose the forbidden gospels over Constantine's version was deemed a heretic.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Fortunately for historians," Teabing said, "some of the gospels that Constantine attempted to eradicate managed to survive.†
Chpt 55-56
- Constantine's Bible has been their truth for ages.†
Chpt 55-56
- Since the days of Constantine, the Church has successfully hidden the truth about Mary Magdalene and Jesus.†
Chpt 99-100
Definition:
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(Constantine) Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)