Eusebius's "Fall Narrative" in Demonstratio Evangelica 4.6-10: Demonic Removal of the National Angelic Boundaries and the Watchers Tradition
Eusebius's protological fall narrative in Demonstratio Evangelica 4.6-10 provides important context for understanding his theology of Christ as cosmic mediator. Eusebius uses Isa 10.13-14 to describe how God's chief demonic antagonist disrupted the divinely sanctioned cosmic order of nat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2018]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-24 |
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Origenes 185-254, Contra Celsum
/ Eusebius, Caesariensis 260-339, Demonstratio evangelica
/ Bible. Deuteronomium 32,8-9
/ Bible. Jesaja 10,13-14
/ Fall of the angels
/ Demon
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBH Angelology; demonology |
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| Summary: | Eusebius's protological fall narrative in Demonstratio Evangelica 4.6-10 provides important context for understanding his theology of Christ as cosmic mediator. Eusebius uses Isa 10.13-14 to describe how God's chief demonic antagonist disrupted the divinely sanctioned cosmic order of national patron angels (Deut 32.8-9), thereby corrupting the human race. Uniquely developing Origen's account, Eusebius furnishes this theological history with motifs from a strand of the Watchers tradition that assigned a positive guardianship role to the Watchers before their rebellion. The Logos becomes incarnate and issues forth his divine instruction as an immediate response to this cosmic plight. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2018.0000 |