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2 - ‘The Older, the Better’

Eusebius of Caesarea and His Construction of Early Christian Beginnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2022

Markus Vinzent
Affiliation:
King's College London
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As seen from the two previous chapters, Eusebius of Caesarea is the one author who had produced the master narrative of the beginnings of Christainity. In his 10 books of the history of the church, he chronologically developed a world history, in which Christianity is and always has been the ultimate goal of God’s creation. Already before time, God had conceived the Logos and through the Logos created this world which, despite the fall, was to come to its restauration and final perfection through the guidance of the Logos, his incarnation, presence on earth and him being alive in his community, called the Church, finally recognized by the first Christian Emperor Constantine.

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Resetting the Origins of Christianity
A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings
, pp. 54 - 117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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