Caesar and the Lamb, Second Edition: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service

Kalantzis, George

ISBN 10: 1666748013 / ISBN 13: 9781666748017

Published by Cascade Books, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caesar and the Lamb, Second Edition: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666748013
• ISBN 13: 9781666748017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Through the available patristic writings, Caesar and the Lamb focuses on the attitudes of the earliest Christians on war and military service. Kalantzis provides the reader with many new translations of pre-Constantinian texts and tells the story of the struggle of the earliest church to bear witness to the nations that enveloped them as they transformed the dominant narratives of citizenship, loyalty, freedom, power, and control. Kalantzis examines writings on war and military service in the first three centuries of the Christian church in an organized manner, but the ways the communities of Christ at the margins of power and society thought of themselves and the state are not presented here through the lens of antiquarian curiosity. At the heart of Caesar and the Lamb is a desire to understand the world in which Christianity arose and to ask questions of the past that may help us understand the early character of the Christian faith with the hope that such an enterprise will also help us evaluate its expression in our own time.

About the Authors

George Kalantzis is Professor of Theology and Director of The Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies at Wheaton College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service.


William T. Cavanaugh is director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago. His areas of specialization are political theology, economic ethics, and ecclesiology. His publications include Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement in Markets, Politics, and Conflict; Migrations of the Holy: Theologies of State and Church; and The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict.