Historians of the Roman Catholic Church - Eusebius of Caesarea, Tertullian, Matthew Paris, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Caesar Baronius, Guenter Lewy (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Eusebius of Caesarea, Tertullian, Matthew Paris, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Caesar Baronius, Guenter Lewy, Daniel Goldhagen, Hippolytus of Rome, Saul Friedlander, Garry Wills, John Cornwell, Ludwig von Pastor, Owen Chadwick, Annio da Viterbo, Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter, Michael F. Feldkamp, Robert A. Graham, Gregorio Leti, Ronald J. Rychlak, Onofrio Panvinio, Theodor Schieffer, Hubert Jedin, John Vidmar, David Kertzer, John Tracy Ellis, Klaus Scholder, Emile Poulat, Stephen Haliczer, Albert Hauck, Karl Josef von Hefele, Eamon Duffy, Margherita Marchione, Alphonsus Ciacconius, John F. Pollard, Michael Phayer, Domenico Bernini, Susan Zuccotti, Thomas Adolphus Trollope. Excerpt: 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. Little is known about the life of Eusebius. His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, but this work has been lost. Eusebius' own surviving works probably only represent a small portion of his total output. Since he was on the losing side of the long 4th-century contest between the allies and enemies of Arianism (Eusebius was an early and vocal supporter of Arius), posterity did not have much respect for Eusebius' person and was neglectful in the preservation of his writings. Beyond notices in his extant writings, the major sources are the 5th-century ecclesiastical historians Socrates, Sozomen, a...