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Cargando... Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 01: Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantinepor Philip Schaff, Eusebius of Caesarea
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Why I ever purchased this in 2012, I have no idea! Upon finally opening it up on my Kindle, I can tell you that most of the 980 pages were a slog. I did NOT read all 980 pages. I read about 400 pages written by Constantine the Great that deal with self-praise for his successes and his explanation on why he accepted Christianity, why he made it the national religion, and how men and women in the empire would reap the benefits of his conversion. This also included Eusebius' Oration of Praise in Honor of Constantine. In the scholarly historical sense, it wasn't "bad." In the enjoyment sense, pffft! There were as many notes as script and often they were more interesting. Off it goes into Kindle space! (The "original" is 32,400 pages, 38 volumes) ( ) I read the Church History by Eusebius in this volume (of the Church Fathers set), which covers about 3/5 of the book. I'll read The Life of Constantine (also by Eusebius in this volume) later. The notes in this volume are prodigious. It would have taken me much longer to finish had I read all the notes. What notes I did read were very informative, I thought. The translation and notes are old, however. They come from about 1890. I was surprised at how modern-sounding they were however - siding with the gnostics, for instance, or discrediting some of the more naive claims of Eusebius for Constantine. Very well done. This is a good book to read if you want to know about the history of the persecutions of the church in the first three centuries after Christ. It's very graphic and in some places sounds like a modern journalistic expose of the many events. Heresy is the other subject that gets some attention in the book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Excerpt from A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Vol. 1: Second SeriesThe First Series of the Nicene and post-nicene Library of the Christian Fathers, con taining, in fourteen volumes, the principal works of St. Augustin and St. Chrysostom, has been completed in less than four years, according to the Prospectus of the Publisher issued in 1886.I am happy to state that -the Second Series, containing the chief works of the Fathers from Eusebius to John of Damascus, and from Ambrose to Gregory the Great, will be issued on the same liberal terms, as announced by the Publisher.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)270.10922Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity History of Christianity Apostolic; Nativity to ConstantineClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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