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The first Christian histories

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The first Christian histories : Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and Evagrius
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Macon, GA
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Mercer University Press
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1986
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xiv, 296
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2nd , rev. and enl.
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24 cm. The pagan background -- Eusebius : fate, fortune, free will, and nature -- Eusebius : the history of salvation from the garden of Eden to the rise of the Roman empire -- Eusebius : the rational and the irrational in human motivation -- Eusebius : from youthful defender of religious liberty to spokesman for the Constantinian imperial church -- Eusebius : Hellenistic kingship and the eschatological Constantine -- Socrates scholasticus : Origenism, humanism, and cosmic sympathy -- Sozomen, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Evagrius Scholasticus : other successors and continuators -- The pious emperor and the philosopher-king -- Toward a tradition and theology of Christian history. Includes indexes./ Bibliography: p. [259]-287. Glenn F. Chesnut.

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