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050 00 $aBR138$b.T76 2000
082 00 $a270.1/072$222
100 1 $aTrompf, G. W.
245 10 $aEarly Christian historiography :$bnarratives of retribution /$cG.W. Trompf.
260 $aLondon ;$aOakville, CT :$bEquinox Pub. Ltd.,$c2000.
300 $axx, 362 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in religion
500 $aOriginally published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [336]-344) and index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
650 0 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aRetribution$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
830 0 $aStudies in religion (London, England)
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/99012543.html