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LEADER: 01936cam a22002894a 4500
001 99012543
003 DLC
005 20050411184209.0
008 990113s2000 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 99012543
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm40693812
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dUKM$dOBE$dDLC
020 $a0826452949 (hbk)
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBR138$b.T76 2000
082 00 $a270.1/072$221
100 1 $aTrompf, G. W.
245 10 $aEarly Christian historiography :$bnarratives of retributive justice /$cG.W. Trompf.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bContinuum,$c2000.
300 $axx, 362 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in religion
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [342]-344) and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
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