The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

by Eusebius, Andrew Louth (Editor), Andrew Louth (Introduction), G. Williamson (Translator)

Overview

Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years.

Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tracing the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century, and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, his aim was to show the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity and its struggle against persecutors and heretics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141904306
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	11/23/1989
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	402,790
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

The so-called 'Father of Ecclesiastical History', Eusebius (263-339) was a Greek Christian. His prodigious literary output can be grouped into four categories: the historical, the apologetic, the Biblical and the dogmatic. G.A Williamson was a renowned scholar of the Classics.