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Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History by James Corke-Webster (review)
Ist Teil von
Journal of Late Antiquity, 2020-10, Vol.13 (2), p.444-446
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE - single title subscriptions
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]these chapters as a whole convey Eusebius's reinvention of the ideal Christian man, epitomizing traditional Greco-Roman models of authority. [...]Eusebius's portraits of its heroes serve as building blocks for his particular vision of the church. [...]Corke-Webster can now claim that Eusebius, in fact, argued that Christianity was simultaneously Rome's creator and its true heir (84). [...]the Caesarean scholar was thus not just writing history. Yet, making Eusebius's postulated historical vision the organizing principle of the book entails its own risks. [...]while the discussions on intellectuals (Chapter 3), the church (Chapter 7), and Rome (Chapter 8) suit this framework quite well, those on asceticism (Chapter 4), Christian families (Chapter 5), and martyrdom (Chapter 6) seem to force the issue.