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 | Author: Eusebius of Cęsarea Category: Christian >
Christian Classics Church Life Reference History
In his Church History or Ecclesiastical History (Historia Ecclesiastica), Eusebius attempted according to his own declaration to present the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points:
(1) the successions of bishops in the principal sees;
(2) the history of Christian teachers;
(3) the history of heresies;
(4) the history of the Jews;
(5) the relations to the heathen;
(6) the martyrdoms.
He grouped his material according to the reigns of the emperors, presenting it as he found it in his sources. The contents are as follows:
- Book 1: detailed introduction on Jesus Christ
- Book 2: The history of the apostolic time to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
- Book 3: The following time to Trajan
- Books 4 and 5: the second century
- Book 6: The time from Septimius Severus to Decius
- Book 7: extends to the outbreak of the persecution under Diocletian
- Book 8: more of this persecution
- Book 9: history to Constantine's victory over Maxentius in the West and over Maximinus in the East
- Book 10: The reestablishment of the churches and the rebellion and conquest of Licinius.
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