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- History of the Church
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
- Series: The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation
summary
Rufinus of Aquileia's History of the Church, published in 402 or 403, is a translation and continuation of that of Eusebius of Caesarea. Eusebius's history tells the story of Christianity from its beginning down to the year 325; Rufinus carries the story forward to 395, the year of the death of Theodosius I. Rufinus demonstrates both a superb understanding of Eusebius's text and a tendency to translate it freely or even to misrepresent it when he judges that it does not do justice to the unity of faith and order which he is convinced is an essential element of the churchs constitution. He excises and rewrites passages liberally, but he retains in his translation Eusebius's revolutionary citation of sources, a historiographical method which would eventually prove so fruitful in the literature of the Latin church.
Table of Contents
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- Abbreviations
- pp. vii-x
- Bibliography
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- Introduction
- pp. 3-16
- History of the Church
- Preface of Rufinus
- pp. 19-20
- Book Three
- pp. 97-140
- Book Seven
- pp. 282-319
- Book Eight
- pp. 320-348
- Book Eleven
- pp. 432-482
- Indices
- Index of Names
- pp. 485-506
- Index of Holy Scripture
- pp. 507-510
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813229034
Related ISBN(s)
9780813229027
MARC Record
OCLC
965828518
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017