Ideologist or Witness?

two contemporary reviews of the person and work of Eusebius of Caesarea

Abstract

Eusebius was Bishop of Caesarea and held his studies in the library there founded by Origen. His intellectual work was notable, because held various knowledge fields. His most important intellectual output was Church History, which pretended to narrate the History of Christianity until the time of Constantine. Eusebius made a different literary genre of preceding historical description. He is still controversial intellectual scholar, both for his theological ambiguity and for his advocacy of the Christian Empire. The aim of this paper is study the reviews about Eusebius present in two contemporary texts. In first place, Eduardo Hoornaert considers him as a rhetorician that would be essentially the opposite of prophetic tradition of Christianity. In the other hand, Joseph Ratzinger considers him as a scholar who knew how to recognize the signs of God's love in history.