The Making of a Christian EmpireThe work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius' Divine Institutesseditious in its timeresponded to the emperor Diocletian's persecution and then became an important influence on Constantine the Great, Rome's first Christian emperor. The Making of a Christian Empire is the first full length book to interpret the Divine