Known as the “Father of Church History,” Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianity’s early development, from its origin in Judaism, through two and a half centuries of illegality and occasional persecution, to a new era of tolerance and favor under the Emperor Constantine. In this book, Michael J. Hollerich recovers the reception of this text across time. As he shows, Eusebius adapted classical historical writing for a new “nation,” the Christians, with a distinctive theo-political vision. Eusebius’s text left its mark on Christian historical writing from late antiquity to the early modern period—across linguistic, cultural, political, and religious boundaries—until its encounter with modern historicism and postmodernism. Making Christian History demonstrates Eusebius’s vast influence throughout history, not simply in shaping Christian culture but also when falling under scrutiny as that culture has been reevaluated, reformed, and resisted over the past 1,700 years.

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Excerpt from College Lectures on Ecclesiastical History Question. (1) Who was the earliest Historian of the Christian Church? What do we know of his life and writings? (2) What other ancient Christian work was of an historical nature? Give some account of it. (3) What, independent of Eusebius, are the sources of early Ecclesiastical History? Answer. (l)Hegesippus: - originally a Jew, who had been converted to the Christian faith, and flourished about the year 170. "He wrote in five books an unsophisticated account of the Apostolical preaching in a very plain style." (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, IV. 22, 8. II. 23. St Jerome, Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers, c. 22.) The work has perished, except some fragments preserved by Eusebius and one more in Photius. They relate to the deaths of James and Simeon the first two Bishops of Jerusalem, E.H. II. 23. III. 32. Domitian's enquiry after the posterity of David, III. 19, 20. His journey to Rome through Corinth - the origin of heresies - a notice of the Gospel of the Hebrews, and the unwritten traditions of the Jews. Adrian's deification of his slave Antinous, IV. 22, 8. The fragment in Photius is a remark on Matt. xiii. 16. (2) "The Chronicle" of Julius Africanus, "in five books accurately written." (Eus. E.H. VI. 31.) "Julius Africanus, whose five books of Chronology are extant, in the time of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus, successor of Macrinus, undertook an embassy for the restoration of Emmaus." Jerome, Cat. 63. He probably resided in Palestine, and flourished about A.D. 220. His Chronicle, now no longer extant in a separate form, is supposed to have been inserted in the works of later annalists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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