TY - BOOK AU - Laing,Stefana Dan TI - Retrieving history: memory and identity formation in the early church SN - 9780801096433 (pbk.) AV - BV4597.565.L35 2017 14188 U1 - 270.1072 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - Baker Academic KW - Memory KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Church history KW - Authorship KW - Historiography KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Identification (Religion) N1 - 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 ER -