num_pages: 435
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.
language: None
title: The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
titlecomplete: The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
characters: Thaddaeus, Sabellius, Heraclas, father Eleutherus, Lucius Quintus, Athenodorus, Irenus, Pantaenus, Anicetus, Novatus, Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus, Asterius Urbanus, Basilides, Montanus, Marcus Aurelius Csar, Domnus, Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, Caesar Caius Valerius Maximinus, Blandina, Anulinus, Symeon, Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus, Matthan, Beryllus, Cerdon, Theophilus Bishop of Antioch, Maximian, Ammonius, Aurelius Cyrenius, O Florinus, Urbicius, Zephyrinus, Irenæus, Pantnus, Maturus, Pinytus, Licinius Augustus, Hermammon, Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Dionysius the Areopagite, Fabianus, Hegesippus (chronicler)
genres: History, Classics, Christianity, Religion, Catholic, Ancient History, Church History, Theology, Nonfiction, Christian
ratings_count: 4326
series: Patrística
publisher: Penguin Classics