The History of the Church

Author

Eusebius

Original Work

History of the Church

Translator

G. A. Williamson

Editor

Andrew Louth

Foreword / Afterword

Andrew Louth

Language

English

Year

1990

Publisher

Penguin

Country

United Kingdom

Pages

184

ISBN

0140445358

0000

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.— Google Books