Ecclesiastical History or Church History, Chronology, Theology and Apologetics. Reflections on the Origins of a New Genre in Greek Christian Literature
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Eusebius of Caesarea is the creator of a new genre in Christian literature, Ecclesiastical History, which will be much imitated in Antiquity, in Byzantium and in the western Middle Ages. This type of historiography, which follows and adapts the Greek literary models, will be the most adequate to bear witness to the Christian theological conception and to the new historical circumstances after Constantine. The universality of the Roman Empire is identified with the Church, the true Kingdom of God, and therefore Ecclesiastical History will be a universal history, in time and space.
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