Historical Writings of Eusebius of Caesarea

By Eusebius

"I feel inadequate to do [church history] justice as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path."Imagine writing a comprehensive history of the church's last three centuries. Now imagine no one has ever written such a history before, so there's no single collection of key documents, no books profiling key figures, no chronology of major events, not even a fixed system of dates. When Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, undertook such an effort, he felt trepidation: "I feel inadequate to do it justice as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path," he wrote in his introduction to the The Church History (or Ecclesiastical History). "But I pray that God may guide me and the power of the Lord assist me, for I have not found even the footprints of any predecessors on this path, only traces in which some have left various accounts of the times in which they lived."For this ten-volume work, Eusebius is known as "the father of church history." But in his day, he was as much a maker of history as a recorder of it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475082282
• ISBN13: 9781475082289
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 804 Pages
• Weight: 2.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.8" x 6.0"