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On this episode, we're going to be looking at my five favorite church historians.

And first on my list, likely should be on anyone's list.

This is Eusebius.

Eusebius is an early church father.

His dates are 263 to 339. He's credited in many ways

as the founder of the father of church history, and that is because of one of his significant works,

ecclesiastical history, or his history of the church. And that is because of one of his significant works,

Ecclesiastical history or his history of the church.

If it weren't for Eusebius, there would be many gaps

in our understanding of the early church figures,

of the early church debates, and the early church issues.

But thanks to this book, he gives us wonderful insight.

He was living this history, as it were, living before Constantine when Christianity was illegal and Christians were under significant persecution

and then living through Constantine and the legalization of Christianity,

Eusebius gives us a front row seat as a church historian.

Second on my list is a figure we know as the bead.

And sometimes he's called the venerable bead.

Now I think all church historians should be called venerable, but that exclusively belongs to

bead. His dates are 672 to 735. He worked primarily in Northeast England and at a

place called St Paul's Monastery. In fact, one record says that St Paul's Monastery. In fact one record says that St Paul's

Monastery was the primary learning institution north of Rome for all of

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