Eusebius
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Your Birth Chart Is Not Your Destiny: Eusebius on Astrology and Free Will
Ancient Christians did not reject astrology because they thought the heavens were meaningless. Eusebius, Bardaisan, and Origen argued instead that… Read More
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Would Eusebius Call the Gods of Modern Paganism Demons?
Eusebius did not think the gods worshiped throughout the pagan world were simply imaginary. He argued that many were real… Read More
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Was Christianity Copied from Paganism? Eusebius Reversed the Charge
The claim that Christianity copied paganism assumes that Christian doctrine moved from Greece into the church. Eusebius of Caesarea argued… Read More
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Can Christians Accept Evolution? What Eusebius Can Tell Us
Christians were arguing against naturalistic accounts of origins long before Darwin. Eusebius preserved Christian attacks on eternal matter, atomism, chance,… Read More
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The Christian Bishop Who Saved the Pagan Books He Wanted to Defeat
Eusebius wanted pagan writers to testify against pagan religion and philosophy. His argument was openly Christian and often severe, but… Read More
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The Historian Between Worlds Part 2
Somewhere in the long corridors of late antiquity, when the empire’s old gods were losing their voice and a new… Read More
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The Historian Between Worlds (Part 1)
In the twilight between the empire’s pagan gods and the dawn of Christian orthodoxy, one figure roamed the intellectual borders… Read More