Eusebius: The Church History

Eusebius: The Church History

ISBN-10:
082543307X
ISBN-13:
9780825433078
Pub. Date:
05/31/2007
Publisher:
Kregel Publications
ISBN-10:
082543307X
ISBN-13:
9780825433078
Pub. Date:
05/31/2007
Publisher:
Kregel Publications
Eusebius: The Church History

Eusebius: The Church History

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Overview

This new, highly affordable paperback edition includes Maier's best-selling translation, historical commentary on each book of The Church History, and ten maps and illustrations. Often called the "Father of Church History," Eusebius recorded crucial information about the lives of Jesus' disciples, the development of the New Testament, Roman politics, and the persecution of early Christians.


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ISBN-13: 9780825433078
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Publication date: 05/31/2007
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 381,307
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Eusebius, the Bishop of Caesarea in Roman Palestine, has well been called "The Father of Church History." As the first Christian historian, he recorded the colorful events and personalities that characterized Christianity in its crucial first three centuries from Christ to Constantine.

Paul L. Maier is the Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University. In 1984 he was named "Professor of the Year" as one of America's twenty-five finest educators. His other works include the award-winning Josephus: The Essential Works, Eusebius: The Church History; In the Fullness of Time; Pontius Pilate; and The Flames of Rome.

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If Herodotus is the father of history, then Eusebius of Caesarea (c. A.D. 260-339) is certainly the father of church history. He was the first to undertake the task of tracing the rise of Christianity during its crucial first three centuries from Christ to Constantine. Since no other ancient author tried to cover the same period, Eusebius is our principal primary source for earliest Christianity, and his Church History is the cornerstone chronicle on which later historians would build. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus provides fascinating addenda to our information about the people, places, and events of the biblical world, and Eusebius does the same for the period up to A.D. 324.

What happened to Jesus' apostles later in life? Did Simon Peter ever to go Rome? Where did John spend the rest of his days? Did Paul survive his trial before Nero? When were the Gospels written? Who wrote them, and where? How did the New Testament canon develop? Why and how were the early Christians persecuted? These questions and many more involve an era no longer covered by the New Testament and could hardly be answered were it not for Eusebius.

Table of Contents


Introduction     9
The Person and Work of Christ     21
Commentary: Eusebius on Jesus     49
The Apostles     52
Commentary: Eusebius on the Apostles     77
Missions and Persecutions     80
Commentary: Eusebius's Sources     115
Bishops, Writings, and Martyrdoms     118
Commentary: Defenders and Defamers of the Faith     147
Western Heroes, Eastern Heretics     150
Commentary: Christian Agonies and Arguments     185
Origen and Atrocities at Alexandria     188
Commentary: Eusebius's Horizons     223
Dionysius and Dissent     227
Commentary: Dionysius of Alexandria     255
The Great Persecution     259
Commentary: The Four Emperors     283
The Great Deliverance     286
Commentary: The End of Persecution?     304
Constantine and Peace     308
Commentary: Eusebius and Constantine     333
Eusebius's Citation of Josephus on Jesus     336
The Successions of Emperors and Bishops     339
Bibliography     344
Indexes     348
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