Retrieving history
Subtitle: memory and identity formation in the early church
By: Stefana Dan Laing
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801096433
Subjects: Historiography; Authorship; Identity (Psychology); Memory; Identification (Religion); Church history; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Map; title: Time line; title: Invitation to the past; title: Ancient historical writing and the rise of historical literary forms; title: History as apologetic: harnessing a usable past; title: Martyrology: remembering the martyrs' noble example; title: Hagiography: martyrdom as discipleship in early Christian biographies; title: Ecclesiastical history: the story of the church; title: Conclusions and trajectories.