"But I pray that God may guide me and the power of the Lord assist me, for I have not found even the footprints of any predecessors on this path, only traces in which some have left various accounts of the times in which they lived."įor this ten-volume work, Eusebius is known as "the father of church history." But in his day, he was as much a maker of history as a recorder of it. When Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, undertook such an effort, he felt trepidation: "I feel inadequate to do it justice as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path," he wrote in his introduction to the The Church History (or Ecclesiastical History). Now imagine no one has ever written such a history before, so there's no single collection of key documents, no books profiling key figures, no chronology of major events, not even a fixed system of dates. Imagine writing a comprehensive history of the church's last three centuries. "I feel inadequate to do justice as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path."
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