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  • Introduction

  • James Corke-Webster, King's College London
  • Book:
    Eusebius and Empire
    Published online:
    04 January 2019
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    The Introduction sketches the history of modern scholarship on Eusebius’ History and situates this book in relation to it. It identifies two broad attitudes towards the first Christian historian in scholarship through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, one critical and one more positive of his historical value. Both, however, were united by an interest in his reliability and a denigration of his literary capacities. More recently, a renaissance in Eusebian scholarship has revealed him as a writer capable of subtlety and sleight of hand. This new scholarly trend has yet, however, to significantly impact study of the History. Eusebius and Empire thus offers a new, full-length treatment, the first to systematically study the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances and its author’s personal history, commitments, and literary abilities. It tries to answer the question of how and why this author wrote this text. These questions are particularly promising in Eusebius’ case, because his appetite for quotation and regular discussion of other writers allow us to trace his influences and thus to situate his innovative picture of early Christianity within broader intellectual trends in both Christian and wider Graeco-Roman thinking.

Eusebius and Empire
  • Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History
  • James Corke-Webster
  • Published online:
    04 January 2019
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019
  • Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. In this volume, James Corke-Webster undertakes the first systematic study considering the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances as well as its author's personal history, intellectual commitments, and literary abilities. He argues that the Ecclesiastical History is not simply an attempt to record the past history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission statement that uses events and individuals from that past to mould a new vision of Christianity tailored to Eusebius' fourth-century context. He presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of their faith that smooths off its rough edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and relationship to Rome. Ultimately, Eusebius suggests that Christianity was - and always had been - the Empire's natural heir.

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