Book description
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.
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.
