Marc Reuver - Requiem For Constantine

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'Marc Reuver's Requiem for Constantine seeks to provide 'A Vision of the Future of Church and State in de West'. Is is based on the conviction that the emergence of the 'people' as actors and subjects of history has introduced a desisively new element into the Constantinian equation. While for the longest part of Christian history, the public space was determined by the state, this obliging the church as the social embodement of the gospel message to arrange itself in one way or another with the prevailing structures of the state, the emergence of the 'people', of 'civil society' has introduced a new dynamic. At a time when we witness the slow erosion of the institutions of the state and of the exercise of public space in Western societies will be, the challenge of the churches is clear. Will they see themselves as defenders of the old order in which church and state stabilized each other, or will they become an active part in participatory values of the emerging civil society? The aut