Died 859

Eulogius of Córdoba

Worth knowing

A priest of Córdoba in Muslim Spain.
Between 850 and 859 about fifty Christians in Córdoba were executed, many of them for speaking publicly against Islam. Eulogius wrote down their stories and defended them as martyrs.
He was elected archbishop of Toledo but was never consecrated. He was beheaded in 859 for sheltering Leocritia, a young convert from Islam.

In Scholar’s Dream, Eulogius of Córdoba has one book

The Memorial of the SaintsEulogius of Córdoba, Memoriale SanctorumHistoryExperience

Eulogius of Córdoba’s quotes in the game

Every quotation from Eulogius of Córdoba that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →

In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.

“We are commanded to preach and to expound our religion to those who seek us. This damsel wished to be instructed by me in our faith; I acceded to her wishes as well as I could, and I would do the like for you, Kady, if you made the same request.”
Eulogius of Córdoba, before the qadi, 859, quoted in Dozy, Spanish Islam (trans. Stokes, 1913), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move We Are Commanded to Preach

EcclesiologyArgument · power 70 · 100% accurate

In the gameEulogius’s answer when a magistrate asked why he had sheltered a girl who wanted instruction in the faith. He does not deny it. He states it as a duty, and offers to do the same for the man asking.

Learned byThe Memorial of the Saints (Lv 32)

“Know ye,” he says to his opponents, “miscreants that ye are, who dare to belittle the glory of the Saints, know ye that at the Last Day ye shall be confronted with them and answer for your blasphemies before God!”
Eulogius of Córdoba, Memoriale Sanctorum, quoted in Dozy, Spanish Islam (trans. Stokes, 1913), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Know Ye, at the Last Day

BibleArgument · power 90 · 100% accurate

In the gameTurns the council’s own charge back on the men who convened it. You call this belittling the glory of the Saints — remember that the Saints will be standing there too, at the Last Day, when you are asked to answer for having said so.

Learned byThe Memorial of the Saints (Lv 39)

Strong against

×3These Are Not Martyrsan argument · why?

He answers from the same Scriptures the council claims — the Saints will be there at the Last Day, and so, he says, will you.

Words Eulogius of Córdoba’s books borrow from others

Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.

“Yea, I did curse your prophet, and I curse him now! I curse him as an impostor, an adulterer, a child of Hell! Your religion is of Satan! The pains of Gehenna await you all!”
Perfectus of Córdoba, 18 April 850, as recorded in Eulogius, Memoriale Sanctorum, quoted in Dozy, Spanish Islam (trans. Stokes, 1913), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move I Curse Him Now

ExperienceArgument · power 78 · 100% accurate

In the gamePerfectus was condemned for saying in private what he thought of Muhammad. Once he was betrayed, he stopped hedging. He said it again in public at his execution, knowing what it would cost.

Learned byThe Memorial of the Saints (Lv 1)

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being. As some of your own poets have said.”
Acts 17:28 (WEB) — Paul at the Areopagus, quoting the Athenians’ own poets back to them.

How it works in the game: the move Affirm

Status

In the gamePick the part of the opponent’s case that is true and affirm it. That point can no longer be used against you, and the opponent’s Defend falls sharply. It deals no damage. Affirm something false and you have only agreed with an error.

Learned byThe Memorial of the Saints (Lv 23)

Who else was alive

Eulogius of Córdoba against everyone else in the game.

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Boethius Boniface John of Damascus Daniel of Winchester Timothy I Alcuin of York Pope Leo III Eulogius of Córdoba Paul Alvaro of Córdoba Rimbert Humbert of Silva Candida Michael Cerularius Peter III of Antioch Anselm of Canterbury Ari Thorgilsson Ebo and Herbord Thomas Aquinas John Wyclif Lorenzo Valla Girolamo Savonarola Pope Paul III Martin Luther Miles Coverdale William Tyndale Emperor Charles V John Calvin Teresa of Ávila John Jewel The Council of Trent The English exiles at Geneva Hugo Grotius René Descartes John Owen Blaise Pascal John Bunyan Louis XIV of France Pierre Bayle Joseph Butler Jonathan Edwards Thomas Reid George Campbell William Paley John Henry Newman J. C. Ryle Friedrich Nietzsche James Orr B. B. Warfield Herman Bavinck W. R. Sorley James Denney J. Gresham Machen

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