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Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Caesarea - yoosēˈbēəs, sĕzərēˈə or Eusebius Pamphilipămˈfĭlī, c.263–339?, Greek apologist and church historian, b. Palestine. He was bishop of Caesarea, Palestine (314?–339). In the controversy over Arianism, Eusebius favored the semi-Arian views of Eusebius of Nicomedia, and he Read More...
Eusebius of Caesarea - yoosēˈbēəs, sĕzərēˈə or Eusebius Pamphilipămˈfĭlī, c.263–339?, Greek apologist and church historian, b. Palestine. He was bishop of Caesarea, Palestine (314?–339). In the controversy over Arianism, Eusebius favored the semi-Arian views of Eusebius of Nicomedia, and he once gave refuge to Arius. A simple baptismal creed submitted by Eusebius at the First Council of Nicaea (325) formed the basis of what became known as the Nicean Creed; it was amended with the Greek word homoousios [consubstantial, of the same substance] to define the Son's relationship with the Father. Eusebius considered this addition to the creed as reflecting the ideas of Sabellius, which he opposed. Although he signed the formulary, he later did not support it. His works include a universal history entitled the Chronicle, the Ecclesiastical History, and the apologetic works Praeparatio Evangelica and Demonstratio Evangelica. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
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Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah: Christian Exegesis in the Age of Constantine
by Michael J. Hollerich. 232 pgs.
Eusebius of Caesarea (d. 339) is our major witness to the triumph of Christianity in the early fourth century. His commentary on the book of Isaiah has only been available to modern scholars since 1975. This first comprehensive commentary examines how Eusebius interpreted Isaiah in the context of Constantine's conversion.
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Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a seventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical editions produced this century make a new English version necessary. The authors of this edition present the results of the recent scholarly debate, as well as their own researches so as to clarify the significance of Eusebius' work and introduce the student to the text and its interpretation, thus opening up the contentious issues. At face value much of what Eusebius wrote is false. This book shows how, once his partisan interpretations and rhetoric are properly understood, both Eusebius' text and the documents it contains give vital historical insights.
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Chapter II: Farther Remarks on Constantine's Piety, and His Open Testimony to the Sign of the Cross.Chapter XLVIII: Now He Built Churches in Honor of Martyrs, and Abolished Idolatry at Constantinople.
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Religion and Politics in the Writings of Eusebius: Reassessing the First "Court Theologian," in Church History
by Michael J. Hollerich. 17 pgs.
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Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire (Chap. 6 "Eusebius' Vita Constantini and the Construction of Constantine")
by M. J. Edwards, Simon Swain. 267 pgs.
This collection of essays illustrates the growth of interest in the representation of individuals, which resulted from the changed environment within which Greek and Latin authors worked in late antiquity. The subjects all fall within the period of the Roman empire, and illustrate the importance of individual personality in literature for an age in which few individuals could hope to achieve political significance.
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Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians (Chap. 10 "Eusebius' Apologetic Writings")
by Mark J. Edwards, Martin Goodman, Simon Price. 315 pgs.
This book is the first to tackle the origins and purpose of literary religious apologetic in the first centuries of the Christian era by discussing, on their own terms, texts composed by pagan and Jewish authors as well as Christians. Previous studies of apologetic have focused primarily on the Christian apologists of the second century. These, and other Christian authors, are represented also in this volume but, in addition, experts in the religious history of the pagan world, in Judaism, and in late antique philosophy examine very different literary traditions to see to what extent techniques and motifs were shared across the religious divide. Each contributor has investigated the probable audience, the literary milieu, and the specific social, political, and cultural circumstances which elicited each apologetic text. In many cases these questions lead on to the further issue of the relation between the readers addressed by the author and the actual readers, and the extent to which a defined literary genre of apologetic developed. These studies, ranging in time from the New Testament to the early fourth century, and including novel contributions by specialists in ancient history, Jewish history, ancient philosophy, the New Testament, and patristics, will put the study of ancient religious apologetic on to a new footing.
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Jews in a Graeco-Roman World (Chap. 5 "Jews, Christians and others in Palestine: The Evidence from Eusebius")
by Martin Goodman. 296 pgs.
This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
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The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great (Chap. 28 "Constantine: Lactantius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Arius, and the Council of Nicaea")
by Henry Chadwick. 730 pgs.
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The Christianity of Constantine the Great (Chap. Four "Rome, 312 - Eusebius' Conversion Story")
by T. G. Elliott. 366 pgs.
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Canon and Text of the New Testament (Chap. V "The Age of Eusebius, 300-370")
by Caspar Rene Gregory. 540 pgs.
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Byzantine Studies and Other Essays (Chap. IX "Eusebius and the Christian Empire")
by Norman H. Baynes. 394 pgs.
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The Myth of Christian Beginnings: History's Impact on Belief ("Eusebius" begins on p. 53)
by Robert L. Wilken. 218 pgs.
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Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian ("The Response of Eusebius and Augustine to Porphyry: General Observations" begins on p. 269)
by Michael Bland Simmons. 385 pgs.
Arnobius of Sicca, in North Africa, was a Christian convert writing in the time of the Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd sentury AD. His most famous work, Against the Pagans, was written shortly after his conversion (c. AD 302), and is a brilliant defense of his new religion using arguments taken from the best of pagan learning. It demonstrates exactly the nature and intensity of the conflict between pagans and Christians at this period. This book, the first major study of Arnobius, deals fully with every important aspect of his life and writing and demonstrates his significant contribution to the final triumph of Christianity over its Graeco-Roman competitors.
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