Review: Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers, by Michael J. Hollerich

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Book Review| February 01 2023 Review: Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers, by Michael J. Hollerich Michael J. Hollerich, Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 316 pp. ISBN: 9780520295360. $95. Philip Wood Philip Wood Aga Khan University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2023) 7 (1): 166–169. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.1.166 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Philip Wood; Review: Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers, by Michael J. Hollerich. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 February 2023; 7 (1): 166–169. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.1.166 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search Eusebius of Caesarea was a prolific polymath. Writing in the aftermath of Constantine’s accession, he was the author of biblical scholarship, apologetics, history, theological polemic, and celebrations of the new Constantinian order (such as the Vita Constantini). He worked at a major cusp of Christian history, when Christian thinkers tried to sort out their new relationship to a state that had persecuted them in the very recent past. Michael Hollerich’s Making Christian History focuses on the significance of Eusebius’s work as an ecclesiastical historian and on his enduring influence on the genre of ecclesiastical history. Chapter 1 examines Eusebius’s Historia Ecclesiae (HE) itself. The HE can be read, in part, as the emplotment of a Roman civil war onto the biblical narrative of divine deliverance. But it was also a continuation of Luke-Acts, which saw bishops (and exegetes) as the successors to the apostles and Nicaea as... You do not currently have access to this content.