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  • 33 - The Ordering of Knowledge in Four Late Patristic Christological Handbooks

  • Edited by Lewis Ayres, University of Durham and Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Michael W. Champion, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Matthew R. Crawford, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book:
    The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity
    Published online:
    05 October 2023
    Print publication:
    26 October 2023, pp 626-643

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses how knowledge is ordered in four theological treatises dating to the late sixth and early seventh centuries, the last phase of late Roman civilisation: Pamphilus’ Capita diversa, Leontius of Jerusalem’s Contra Monophysitas, Theodore of Raithou’s Praeparatio and De sectis, a transcript of lectures given by a monk called Theodore. These texts, which were written in Palestine and Egypt, defend the interpretation of the incarnation of the divine Word that had been given by the Council of Chalcedon against the attacks of opponents, in particular the Monophysites. They are not original contributions to the christological discourse but present material taken from earlier texts in such a way that it can be used in debates about doctrine.

  • 23 - Eusebius and the birth of church history

  • from A - LITERARY GUIDE
  • Edited by Frances Young, University of Birmingham, Lewis Ayres, Emory University, Atlanta, Andrew Louth, University of Durham
  • Assisted by Augustine Casiday, University of Durham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 April 2004, pp 266-274

  • Summary

    Eusebius was born in the early 260s, probably in Caesarea, which was to be the centre of his activities for most of his life. Three events profoundly shaped Eusebius' life and activity. The first was his encounter with Pamphilus. The second great event that affected Eusebius' life was the toleration of Christianity, and indeed the growing imperial patronage of the Church, in the years following Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge in 312. Eusebius became bishop of Caesarea soon after; his was an episcopate that experienced the dramatic change in the relationship between the Christian Church and imperial authority. The third event was his encounter with the Emperor Constantine himself, and his finding himself commissioned to compose a panegyric for his tricennalia. The apprenticeship with Pamphilus marked everything that Eusebius wrote; Eusebius emerged as a man of wide reading and great scholarly erudition. Eusebius' other works of history are his encomia of the emperor.