Making Christian History

Michael J. Hollerich is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas, author of Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah, coeditor of the fourth edition of The Christian Theological Tradition, and translator of Erik Peterson's Theological Tractates.

• Abbreviations Acknowledgments1. Eusebius and His Ecclesiastical HistoryEusebius as Transitional FigureEusebius's Historical Diptych: The Chronicle and the Ecclesiastical HistoryWhat Is "Ecclesiastical History," and Why Did Eusebius Write One?An Untrodden Path? Eusebius’s Predecessors2. The Reception of the Ecclesiastical History in a Christian EmpireThe Manuscript Tradition as Reception HistoryTranslations and Continuations in AntiquityEusebius's First Continuators: Rufinus of Aquileia and Gelasius of CaesareaEusebius's Ancient Greek Continuators: An Ecclesiastical History Canon3. The Reception of the Ecclesiastical History in the Non-Greek EastSyriac Christianity: Historiography, Doctrinal Conflict, and Regime ChangeArmenia: Adapting Eusebius on the Borderland of Rome and PersiaEusebius in the Coptic Tradition: From Ecumenical to Ethnic Ecclesiastical History4. The Reception of the Ecclesiastical History in the Latin West The Ancient Latin Tradition after Rufinus"National" Ecclesiastical History in the Middle AgesBede and Ecclesiastical History in Anglo-Saxon England: Eusebius's Heir and CriticEusebius and Frankish Identity: The Cult of the BookA Norman Ecclesiastical History: Orderic VitalisEcclesiastical History in a Corpus Christianum5. Eusebius in ByzantiumJohn Malalas and His ChronicleThe Paschal ChronicleGeorge Synkellos and Theophanes: At the Summit of Byzantine ChronographyNicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus and the Return of Ecclesiastical History6. Eusebius Rediscovered in Early Modernity: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Republic of LettersThe Ecclesiastical History and Renaissance Humanism: Humanist Historiography and Sacred HistoryEusebius in a Confessional Age: From Humanist Retrieval to the Weaponizing of Ecclesiastical HistoryEusebius in the Republic of Letters7. Reading Eusebius in Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ecclesiastical History in Modern ScholarshipIn Search of Patrons: The Ecclesiastical History and Its Modern History of PublicationCritical Reception I: SecularCritical Reception II: Religious and TheologicalEcclesiastical History and Its Future Bibliography Index

"Michael Hollerich has produced a valuable study on Eusebius. . . . [And] Making Christian History is a welcome addition to the growing field of new Eusebian scholarship on the reception and influence of his innovative management of sources."