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Early Christian Martyrdom

In Our Time: Religion

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Eusebius - The Great Storyteller of the Christian Martyrs

Eusebius is the first person to sit down and tell the story of early christianity. He's not just interested in recounting what happened in those 300 years. Really what he's doing is using the past 300 years of christian history to try and make something happen in his own day. In the early fourth century, he want a gently forit. I like to think of this as smoothing off the rough edges of christiany.

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