RT Book
T1 Early Christian historiography: narratives of retributive justice
T2 Studies in religion
A1 Trompf, G. W. 1940-
LA English
PP London u.a.
PB Continuum
YR 2000
ED 1. publ.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/324226918
AB Machine generated contents note: Part 1 Bases and beginnings 1 -- 1 Backdrop: retributive principles in traditional societies and ancient historiography 3 -- 2 The first Christian historian: Luke and his two books 47 -- Part 2 Centrepiece: the Eusebian achievement 107 -- 3 Towards historical triumphalism: Eusebius, Lactantius and their predecessors 109 -- 4 The man in the middle: Rufinus of Aquileia between East and West 158 -- Part 3 The Byzantine East 185 -- 5 Church history as nonconformism: retributive and eschatological elements in Athanasius and Philostorgius 187 -- 6 The golden chain of Byzantinism: the Tripartite ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret 213 -- Part 4 The Latin West 253 -- 7 History as theodicy: Augustine's De civitate Dei 255 -- 8 Consolations of history under the declining Western empire: Sulpicius and Orosius 283
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR138
SN 0826452949
K1 Augustinus, Aurelius : Heiliger : 354-430 : De civitate dei
K1 Church History : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 : Historiography
K1 Retribution : Religious aspects : Christianity : History of doctrines : Early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Church History : Historiography