Eusebius of Caesarea Quotes on God
Eusebius of Caesarea (c.260–c.339) — the bishop of Caesarea Maritima whose Ecclesiastical History supplies the principal narrative source for the early Christian movement and whose Preparation for the Gospel and Demonstration of the Gospel constitute the major surviving early Christian apologetic synthesis — gave the late Constantinian Christian tradition its founding philosophical-theological apologetic. The central project develops the doctrine of the divine Logos through whom God creates and is manifested in the world — the philosophical-theological framework for the Christological doctrine that would receive its definitive Nicene formulation under Eusebius’s own (semi-Arian) ambivalence — through close engagement with the prior pagan philosophical tradition (Platonism, Stoicism) and the parallel Jewish theological inheritance through Philo. The framework, drawing on Origen and the Alexandrian theological tradition, supplied the principal early-fourth-century apologetic for the Christian conception of God in dialogue with classical philosophy.
Quotes
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Attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea:
“History is the record of God's providence in the world.”
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Attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea:
“The truth of the Gospel is older than the world.”
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Attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea:
“Christianity is the fulfillment of the philosophical search of the nations.”
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Attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea:
“Religion is best preserved in writing.”
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Attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea:
“The blood of the martyrs witnesses to the truth of the faith.”
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“He that will deserve the name of a Christian must be such a man as excelleth through the knowledge of Christ and His doctrine; in modesty and righteousness of mind, in constancy of life, in virtuous fortitude, and in maintaining sincere piety toward the one and the only God, who is all in all.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 103. -
“[Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.”
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“All of these credited for righteousness, going back from Abraham to the first man, could be described as Christians in fact if not in name, without exceeding the truth. For the name means that the Christian, through the knowledge and teaching of Christ, excels in self-control and righteousness, in disciplines and virtue, and in the confession of the one and only God over all, and in all this they showed no less zeal than we.”
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