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Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution. By Richard Paul Vaggione, OHC. [Oxford Early Christian Studies.] (New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xxv, 425. $90.00.) Most of what we used to know about Eunomius, whom church historians pigeon-holed as a neo-Arian, came from heavy-artillery tomes labeled Contra Eunomium of Cappadocians, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, the latter setting the tone by describing Eunomius's father, a farmer, as "an excellent man, except that he had such a son." Eunomius in fact was a prolific writer, equipped with tachygraphic skills and formidable dexterity in dialectic. Theodoret, in his Compendium of Heretical Fables, 4, 3, (dis)credits him with re-naming theology technology (which sounds surprisingly like the modem renaming of homo sapiens as techno-sapiens!). But any dreams he might have had about leaving a theo/technological legacy were shattered by post-mortem imperial edicts...