Garry W Trompf

Early Christian Historiography

Narratives of Retribution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the developing application of retributive principles in historical narratives before Christ. It assesses degrees of concern in the first history-writers of the world's most widespread monotheistic tradition to discern divine justice in human affairs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781845531881
• ISBN-10: 1845531884
• Artikelnr.: 21659875

Autorenporträt

G.W. Trompf is Professor of the History of Ideas, University of Sydney. He was formerly Professor of History at the University of Papua New Guinea. He is founding editor of the monograph series Studies in World Religions; Gnostica; and Sydney Studies in Religion; and he is Chairman of the Association of The Journal of Religious History. His other books include The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought and Melanesian Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Bases and beginnings 1. Backdrop: Retributive principles in
traditional societies and ancient historiography 2. The first Christian
historian: Luke and his two books Part 2: Centrepiece: The Eusebian
achievement 3. Towards historical triumphalism: Eusebius, Lactantius and
their predecessors 4. The man in the middle: Rufinus of Aquileia between
East and West Part 3: The Byzantine East 5. Church history as
nonconformism: Retributive and eschatological elements in Athanasius and
Philostorgius 6. The golden chain of Byzantinism: The Tripartite
ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret Part 4: The
Latin West 7. History as theodicy: Augustine's De civitate Dei 8.
Consolations of history under the declining Western empire: Sulpicius and
Orosius 9. Aftermath