Christianity as centrality or peripherisation in Europe. Constantine the Great’s ecclesial model or the Maastricht model?
Christianity as centrality or peripherisation in Europe. Constantine the Great’s ecclesial model or the Maastricht model?

Summary/Abstract: The chosen topic is an analytical comment on the situation of Christianity, since the time of its liberation by Constantine the Great until the post-Maastricht period, when it is marginalised. My aim is to outline an analysis of free Christianity during the Constantinian period, with its shorts and overs, and eventually to expound a viewpoint with respect to the situation of contemporary Christianity. The ecclesial freedom provided by the Edict of Mediolanum involved the institutional liberation of Christianity, but the quality of spiritual life has not fully depended on the liberty of the Church. Unfortunately, the aspect of the Christian Church as an institution has gradually begun to be emphasized, to the detriment of that of the Church as event. The history of Christianity has been marked by the highs and lows of the liberties of an ecclesial institution more or less aware of its Christic calling. Today Christianity is facing another challenge: the European peripherisation and missionary competition of other religions, oftentimes with fundamentalist notes. Christ no longer has centrality of value in the European globalist-consumerist society. The consequences of this situation can be seen in this short analysis.

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