Early Christian historiography: narratives of retribution
G.W. Trompf
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Early Christian historiography: narratives of retribution / G.W. TrompfPublication Details
لندن : Equinox Pub. Ltd، 2000مPhysical Description
xx, 362 p.; 24 cm.Subject
Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 - HistoriographyRetribution Early church, ca. 30-600 - Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines
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(Studies in religion؛ )Language
انگلیسیOriginally published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]633[-443( and index.
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]633[-443( and index.
Contents
Part 1. Bases and beginnings -- Backdrop : retributive principles in traditional societies and ancient historiography -- The first Christian historian : Luke and his two books -- Part 2. Centrepiece: the Eusebian achievement -- Towards historical triumphalism : Eusebius, Lactantius and their predecessors -- The man in the middle : Rufinus of Aquileia between East and West -- Part 3. The Byzantine East -- Church history as nonconformism : retributive and eschatological elements in Athanasius and Philostorgius -- The golden chain of Byzantinism : the Tripartite ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret -- Part 4. The Latin West -- History as theodicy : Augustine's De civitate Dei -- Consolations of history under the declining Western empire : Sulpicius and Orosius