Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series: Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series #1

by Eusebius, Philip Schaff (editor)

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Genres: History, Christianity, Church History, Catholic

632 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1980

About the author

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 263 – 339) also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon. He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the Biblical text. As "Father of Church History" he produced the Ecclesiastical History, On the Life of Pamphilus, the Chronicle and On the Martyrs.

Information is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius...

Reviews

[Etienne OMNES]

J'ai déjà recensé chaque livre des pères contenus dans ce livre à part, je critique ici l'édition de Philip Schaff en elle-même, disponible sur CCEL.org dans laquelle j'ai lu:

-Histoire ecclésiastique d'Eusèbe de Césarée
-Vie de Constantin, d'Eusèbe de Césarée
-Adresse aux saints, de Constantin le Grand
-Eloge à Constantin, d'Eusèbe de Césarée

Ce livre est exceptionnel par son introduction très juste et bien fournie à Eusèbe de Césarée, un historien plus intéressé par l'édification que la parfaite rigueur des sources. Le traducteur a fait un bon travail pour défendre à la fois l'authenticité des écrits d'Eusèbe et en même temps exposer le genre d'erreurs qu'il faisait, si bien que grâce à lui, on interprète bien mieux ce que dit Eusèbe de Césarée, un des grands auteurs nicéens. Les notes sont également très utiles pour pouvoir interpréter correctement le texte. Une très bonne édition, difficile à surpasser.

[Tom]

(Read online at https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf... .) The rating is mostly for the extensiveness and informativeness of the annotations, which not only acted as a vital corrective (as they do to any of these primary sources), but also satisfied more of my historical curiosity than the content itself. Man, Eusebius really liked Constantine.

[Jeni Enjaian]

Once again I finish one of these books and am left to write a review with nothing that I have not already mentioned in the previous reviews. To recap: I do not have proper qualifications to review; I read them too quickly to give the review a fair chance; it's hard to "review" works like these; the free PDFs are awesome. I should probably copy and paste this review from now on. :)

[CJ Bowen]

Eusebius' contribution the faith was massive. His records of the early history of Christianity are invaluable, and his own life, tangled up as it was with the battle over Arianism and the inception of Christendom, is very instructive. Required church history reading.