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Praeparatio evangelica
Overview
Preparation for the Gospel (Ancient Greek: Εὐαγγελικὴ προπαρασκευή, Euangelikē proparaskeuē), commonly known by its Latin title Praeparatio evangelica, is a work of Christian apologetics written by Eusebius in the early part of the fourth century AD. It was begun about the year 313, and attempts to prove the excellence of Christianity over pagan religions and philosophies. It was dedicated to Bishop Theodotus of Laodicea.
Eusebius devotes a considerable portion of the work to explaining what he sees as a debt that Greek philosophers owed to Hebrew culture.
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This all-embracing and all-absorbing power of the church lasted about a thousand years and ended with the Reformation, though it had begun to decline some two centuries earlier. For this condition of things the Roman empire had prepared the way. It was the prototype to which, in part unconsciously and in part consciously, ecclesiastical authority was made to conform.
Charles William Super, Between Heathenism and Christianity
Close in meaning to Praeparatio evangelica; the term itself is not named.
Christianae religionis reuerentiam plures usurpant, sed ea fides pollet maxime ac solitarie quae cum propter uniuersalium praecepta regularum, quibus eiusdem religionis intellegatur auctoritas, tum propterea, quod eius cultus per omnes paene mundi terminos emanauit, catholica uel uniuersalis uocatur. Cuius haec de trinitatis unitate sententia est: "Pater," inquiunt, "deus filius deus spiritus sanctus deus." Igitur…
Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Praeparatio evangelica; the term itself is not named.
Ex eo per sæcula multa ad præsens, una eademque prosapia multitudo creata, Deorum cultibus dedicatur. Feruntque, si justum est credi, etiam ignem cœlitus lapsum apud se sempiternis foculis custodiri, cujus portionem exiguam ut faustam præisse quondam Asiaticis Regibus dicunt: Hujus originis apud veteres numerus erat exilis, ejusque mysteriis Persicæ potestates in faciendis rebus divinis solemniter utebantur. Eratque…
Isaac Newton, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
Close in meaning to Praeparatio evangelica; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Praeparatio evangelica
- Philo of Larissa
- Arcesilaus
- Xenophanes
- Parmenides
- Protagoras
- Numenius of Apamea
- Chrysippus
- Aristocles of Messene
- Aristoxenus
- Arius Didymus
- Lacydes of Cyrene
- Antipater of Tarsus
- Aristobulus of Alexandria
- Amelius
- Eubulides
- Bardaisan
- Oenomaus of Gadara
Related ideas
- Eusebius
- Timon of Phlius
- Pyrrhonism
- Pyrrho
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Latin
- Middle Platonism
- Platonism
- Neoplatonism
- Numenius of Apamea
- Venice
- Phoenicia
- Bishop
- Syriac language
- Porphyry of Tyre
- Diodorus Siculus
- Euhemerus
- George of Trebizond
- Atticus (philosopher)
Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient Greek philosophy.