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Harmonizing the Truth: Eusebius and the Problem of the Four Gospels

Harmonizing the Truth: Eusebius and the Problem of the Four Gospels HARMONIZING THE TRUTH: EUSERIUS AND THE PRORLEM OF THE FOUR GOSPELS By THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN In the late third century Eusebius of Caesarea, better remembered now for his work as a historian of the church, produced an apparatus for the reconciliation of the disagreements found in the four Christian gospels.1 It was a remarkable work in its own right for it preserved, as the n demanded, the plurality of the gospels, while allowing them to be presented and studied as a single entity, "the gospel," and so succeeding in Tatian's aim in his Diatessaron2 -- as exegesis and apologetics demanded. Moreover, though now largely forgotten, it remained an important element within theology for centuries. This paper's aim is to locate the significance of Eusebius's work in its original setting in the world of late antiquity and the Christian defense of pagan challenges to the gospels' integrity, and then to follow the influence of his work within just one strand of the n: that which forms the background of western, Latin theology. So it will note how that work was adopted and adapted by Jerome, how it then passed on to the late-patristic Latin schoolmasters who sought to transform all http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Traditio Fordham University Press

Harmonizing the Truth: Eusebius and the Problem of the Four Gospels

Traditio , Volume 65 (1) – Oct 3, 2010

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HARMONIZING THE TRUTH: EUSERIUS AND THE PRORLEM OF THE FOUR GOSPELS By THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN In the late third century Eusebius of Caesarea, better remembered now for his work as a historian of the church, produced an apparatus for the reconciliation of the disagreements found in the four Christian gospels.1 It was a remarkable work in its own right for it preserved, as the n demanded, the plurality of the gospels, while allowing them to be presented and studied as a single entity, "the gospel," and so succeeding in Tatian's aim in his Diatessaron2 -- as exegesis and apologetics demanded. Moreover, though now largely forgotten, it remained an important element within theology for centuries. This paper's aim is to locate the significance of Eusebius's work in its original setting in the world of late antiquity and the Christian defense of pagan challenges to the gospels' integrity, and then to follow the influence of his work within just one strand of the n: that which forms the background of western, Latin theology. So it will note how that work was adopted and adapted by Jerome, how it then passed on to the late-patristic Latin schoolmasters who sought to transform all

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