After seeing Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History (get that edition! and read the footnotes!) referenced in, oh, just about every single book that deals with the history of the Early Church, I decided that I had to go back to the source and read it myself. So I jumped on Amazon and bought it. After it sat on my nightstand for about six months, I finally got around to reading it. Here's 10 reasons why you should read it, too. #1: History has a way of humbling you. It forces you to see that your perspective on any given topic is not only one of many, but is perhaps not even one that was considered at all in times past. This was a particularly important lesson for me as a Presbyterian because too many of us a) think we know Church history (we actually only know post-Reformation Reformed history) and b) we think the Reformed perspective is the only valid one. #2: Eusebius preserves the writings of many early church fathers. There is something unique...