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Syriac manuscript of Ecclesiastical History, X,I,4-II,1 (National Library of Russia, Codex Syriac 1) The result was the first full-length narrative of the world history written from a Christian point of view. [2] According to Paul Maier, Herodotus was the father of history and Eusebius of Caesarea is the father of ecclesiastical history. [3]
The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History [HE] of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3:25 and Origen's list at HE 6:25. Eusebius got his information ...
Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church refers to the history of the Catholic Church as an institution, written from a particular perspective. There is a traditional approach to such historiography. The generally identified starting point is Eusebius of Caesarea, and his work Church History.
On the Martyrs of Palestine is a work by church historian and Bishop of Caesarea, Eusebius (AD 263 – 339), relating the persecution of Christians in Caesarea under Roman Emperor Diocletian. The work survives in two forms, a shorter recension which formed part of his Ecclesiastical History, and a longer version, discovered only in 1866 ...
Eusebius often referenced his own former works, forty-one times in Life of Constantine, most notably Ecclesiastical History (Historia Ecclesiastica) and the Tricennalian Oration (Laus Constantini). The Ecclessiastical History itself has many imperial documents and letters from Constantine, some repeating their appearance in Life of Constantine.
Historia Ecclesiastica (Latin, meaning "Church History") is the name of many different works, documenting the history of Christianity, including: Alexander Natalis; Bartholomew of Lucca, Historia Ecclesiastica Nova; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica (4th century) Evagrius Scholasticus
The purpose of the history is to continue the work of Eusebius of Caesarea (1.1). It relates in simple Greek language what the Church experienced from the days of Constantine to the writer's time. Ecclesiastical dissensions occupy the foreground, for when the Church is at peace, there is nothing for the church historian to relate (7.48.7).
The most notable bishop of Caesarea was Eusebius of Caesarea, also known as Eusebius Pamphili. The Library of Caesarea Maritima established by Pamphilus of Caesarea remained in existence until the Arabs invaded Palestine in the 7th century. The diocese suffered a troubled history following the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire in the
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