![]() Ground zeroĮusebius was not only a recorder of history, but one of the key players at a significant turning point for the church. ![]() ![]() And this foundation stands firm despite noticeable cracks. However one evaluates Eusebius’s achievement, his work remains foundational for our knowledge of the church in its first three centuries. This is the man who called Emperor Constantine “most beloved by God,” described the fourth-century church as being brought to “a state of uniform harmony,” and called Jews “a people who had slain the prophets and the Lord himself.” Jewish historian Doron Mendels describes Eusebius’s Church History as a “media revolution” and suggests that, because of his style of weaving short entries into a broader scheme, the author was “one of the fathers of the journalistic genre.” Another writer concludes that Eusebius was “less a historian than a mediator of knowledge.” Grant, a modern historian of the early church period, provocatively asked, “Did the Father of Church History write history?” ![]() MANY PEOPLE KNOW EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA as the “Father of Church History.” But as Robert M. ![]()
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