TY  - BOOK
AU  - TROMPF,G.W.
TI  - Early Christian historiography: narratives of retributive justice 
T2  - Studies in religion
SN  - 0826452949 (hbk)
AV  - BR 138 .T76 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Retribution
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-344) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/99012543.html
ER  -