Retrieving history : memory and identity formation in the early church /
Laing, Stefana Dan, 1971-
Retrieving history : memory and identity formation in the early church / Stefana Dan Laing. - xxiv, 216 pages : map ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.
Map -- Time line -- Invitation to the past -- Ancient historical writing and the rise of historical literary forms -- History as apologetic: harnessing a usable past -- Martyrology: remembering the martyrs' noble example -- Hagiography: martyrdom as discipleship in early Christian biographies -- Ecclesiastical history: the story of the church -- Conclusions and trajectories.
9780801096433 (pbk.)
2016059364
Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church history--Authorship.
Church history--Historiography.
Identity (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Identification (Religion)
BV4597.565.L35 2017 / 14188
270.1072
Retrieving history : memory and identity formation in the early church / Stefana Dan Laing. - xxiv, 216 pages : map ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.
Map -- Time line -- Invitation to the past -- Ancient historical writing and the rise of historical literary forms -- History as apologetic: harnessing a usable past -- Martyrology: remembering the martyrs' noble example -- Hagiography: martyrdom as discipleship in early Christian biographies -- Ecclesiastical history: the story of the church -- Conclusions and trajectories.
9780801096433 (pbk.)
2016059364
Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church history--Authorship.
Church history--Historiography.
Identity (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Identification (Religion)
BV4597.565.L35 2017 / 14188
270.1072