{"product_id":"the-eusebians-david-m-gwynn-9780199205554","title":"The Eusebians: The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the `Arian Controversy'","description":"A historical and theological re-evaluation of the polemical writings of Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-73), who would become known to later Christian generations as a saint and a champion of orthodoxy, and as the defender of the original Nicene Creed of 325 against the  Arian heresy'. For much of his own lifetime, however, Athanasius was an extremely controversial figure, and his writings, although highly influential on modern interpretations of the fourth-century Church and the so-called  Arian Controversy', display bias and distortion . David M. Gwynn examines Athanasius' polemic in detail, and in particular his construction of those he condemns as  Arian' as a single  heretical party', 'the Eusebians'. Gwynn argues that Athanasius' image of the Church polarized between his own  orthodoxy' and the  Arianism' of the  Eusebians' is a polemical construct, which has seriously impaired our knowledge of the development of Christianity in the crucial period in which the Later Roman Empire became ever increasingly a Christian empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David M. Gwynn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199205558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199205554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.78h x 5.80w x 0.92d","brand":"David M. Gwynn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054700097791,"sku":"9780199205554","price":155.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2b6a6f1-0193-46af-bbcb-ce6143b817bf.jpg?v=1685031486","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-eusebians-david-m-gwynn-9780199205554","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}