"A Christ-centred history": with those words, during Wednesday’s catechesis, Benedict XVI defined the historiographical work by Eusebius of Caesarea, who acknowledges that "for all the men in the whole world, just Jesus is said to be, acknowledged and confessed Christ (that is, Messiah and Saviour of world)". Therefore, here is "the moral intention which is the foundation of the tale", and "will remain constant in the old ecclesiastic historiography", where "the historical analysis is never an end for itself, but it rather firmly relies on conversion, and on the real token of Christian life by the believers". "In this way according to the Pope, – Eusebius lively addresses the believers of any time, with respect to their ways of approaching the events of history, and in particular, of the Church. He also addresses us: what is our attitude with respect to the events of the Church? Is it the attitude of the simply curious, perhaps in search of sensational facts and scandals at all costs"? Or rather, "is it the attitude full of love, open to mystery, of those who know by faith to be able the see the sign of God’s love, as well as the big salvation works accomplished by Him in the history of the Church"? (To be continued)
