Study Questions for Assignment 27 -- Eusebius, The History of the Church, pgs 179-255 (bks 6-7)
Book 6 -- Origen
- Page 179 (cf. 429) In about what year was Origen born? Where did he live? What else was he called? (cf. pg. 193)
- Page 179 (cf. 429) In about what year was Origen born? Where did he live? What else was he called? (cf. pg. 193)
- Page 186, section 8 Why did Demetrius later change his tune about Origen's "rash act"?
- Page 187 section 9 What does E. say "proves" the miracle of the water changed into oil?
- Pages 185 (section 6) and 190 (section 13) On Clement of Alexandria, please read the entries for the two different Clements (Alexandria and Rome) on pg 357. What is his Miscellanies about? What is Outlines about?
- Pages 193, 194, section 16 What is Clement's Hexapla?
- Page 206, section 34 In what year did Philip, apparently the first Christian emperor, come to the throne?
- Sections 39, 41 Approximately when did the persecutions under Decius begin?
- Page 221, section 1 In what year did Origen die? Does this square with your earlier calcuation of the year of his birth? Where is the inconsistency?
- Page 221, section 1 How did Gallus destroy his own protection? (cf. pgs 68, 75)
- Pages 221-225, sections 2-9 What two questions about baptism arose during the Roman bishoprics of Stephen and Xystis? What decade is this?
- Page 226 section 10 What change in attitude toward the Christians did Valerian manifest? Why?
- In about what year were Valerians persecutions countermanded by his son Gallenius? (cf sections 13 and 14 with page 430).
- Cf. Pages 31 and 234: 1) the letter of Jesus to Abgar, 2) the statue of Jesus and the woman with the hemorrhage, and 3) the throne of James, first bishop of Jerusalem. How does Eusebius view the authenticity of these objects? Why? If they were real, why in God's providence might they have been lost so that we can no longer view and touch them? How did Christians in the middle ages treat objects connected to Christ, the Apostles, and other saints? How would modern Christians view Noah's Ark and the Ark of the Covenant if they were actually found and proved to be genuine?
- Pages 240-243, section 25 What is Dionysius's judgment about how to view the book of Revelation? On what bases does he reject the claim that it was written by the Apostle John?
- Page 249, section 31 What was the origin of Manicheeism? What was the character of Mani, according to Eusebius?
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