Dimensions
152 x 229 x 15mm
Known as the edquo;Father of Church History,ndquo; Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianityesquo;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 tdquo;nation,pdquo; the Christians, with a distinctive theo-political vision.
Eusebius,squo;s text left its mark on Christian historical writing from late antiquity to the early modern period dash;across linguistic, cultural, political, and religious boundariessdash;until its encounter with modern historicism and postmodernism. Making Christian History demonstrates Eusebiushsquo;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.
