Ecclesiastical History

…centuries of Christianity, in his Ecclesiastical History, is a landmark in Christian historiography.

…whose Historia ecclesiastica (written 312–324; Ecclesiastical History) was the first important work of Christian history since the Acts of the Apostles. For Eusebius, the Roman Empire was the divinely appointed and necessary milieu for the propagation of the Christian faith. Roman peace and Roman roads allowed the Apostle Paul to…

Eusebius of Caesarea, whose Ecclesiastical History is the chief primary source for the history of the church up to 324, reported that Ignatius’s arrest and his condemnation to the wild beasts in the Roman arena occurred during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan (98–117). Eusebius, on unknown grounds,…

…of the movement are Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, the writings of Tertullian and St. Epiphanius, and inscriptions, particularly those in central Phrygia.

…known as a historian; his Ecclesiastical History, with its scholarly use of documents and guiding idea that the victory of Christianity is the proof of its divine origin, introduced something novel and epoch-making. But he also wrote voluminous apologetic treatises, biblical and exegetical works, and polemical tracts against Marcellus of…

…intended to continue the monumental Ecclesiastical History by the 4th-century chronicler Eusebius of Caesarea. In reality it constituted an apology for the radical Arian school. Beyond fragmentary references by Byzantine historians from the 9th to the 13th century, it has survived only in a summary and commentary in the Bibliotheca…

340), in his Ecclesiastical History is 167–168.

… still extant, preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of the 4th-century scholar Eusebius of Caesarea, Quadratus has not been clearly identified. Addressed from Asia Minor to the Roman emperor Hadrian during a persecution either in 124 or 129, the Apology is thought to have been written by a disciple of the…

…from Historia ecclesiastica (written 312–324; Ecclesiastical History) by Eusebius of Caesarea. Eusebius tells us that at Caesarea Philippi there lived the woman whom Christ healed of a hemorrhage (Matthew 9:20). In the apocryphal Acts of Pilate (4th/5th century), this woman is identified with the name Veronica. Later tradition held that…