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• catalog abstract ""Delving into the interpretive 'tool-kit' of the earliest Christian historians, G.W. Trompf identifies and explores the 'logic of retribution' that pervades their records of the past. In particular, he shows how modes of interpreting the outcomes of events were inherited from the biblical and Greco-Roman historiographical traditions which affirm the presence of a moral order in human affairs. In the Old Testament, for example, the unfolding of narratives was intended to reveal how God blessed those who kept his commandments and requited those who turned against them. The writings of the early Christian historians reflected this logic, applied to the particular historical events they were recording, with God meting out condign recompenses for good or ill. Trompf analyses the related, if oppositional, development of Christian and pagan history-writing from the initial emergence of Christian historians. He also explores the conflict between the retributive logic of the early Christian historians and what began to emerge as the central features of Christian faith: forgiveness and redemption."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11994708.
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Delving into the interpretive 'tool-kit' of the earliest Christian historians, G.W. Trompf identifies and explores the 'logic of retribution' that pervades their records of the past. In particular, he shows how modes of interpreting the outcomes of events were inherited from the biblical and Greco-Roman historiographical traditions which affirm the presence of a moral order in human affairs. In the Old Testament, for example, the unfolding of narratives was intended to reveal how God blessed those who kept his commandments and requited those who turned against them. The writings of the early Christian historians reflected this logic, applied to the particular historical events they were recording, with God meting out condign recompenses for good or ill.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-344) and index.".
• catalog description "Preface -- Abbreviations -- -- Part 1 Bases and beginnings -- -- 1. Backdrop : retributive principles in traditional societies and ancient historiography -- 2. The first Christian historian : Luke and his two books -- -- Part 2 Centrepiece : the Eusebian achievement -- -- 3. Towards historical triumphalism : Eusebius, Lactantius and their predecessors -- 4. The man in the middle : Rufinus of Aquileia between East and West -- -- Part 3 The Byzantine East -- -- 5. Church history as nonconformism : retributive and eschatological elements in Athanasius and Philostorgius -- 6. The golden chain of Byzantinism : the Tripartite ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret -- -- Part 4 The Latin West -- -- 7. History as theodicy : Augustine's De civitate Dei -- 8. Consolations of history under the declining Western empire : Sulpicius and Orosius -- -- Aftermath -- Select bibliography -- Index.".
• catalog description "Trompf analyses the related, if oppositional, development of Christian and pagan history-writing from the initial emergence of Christian historians. He also explores the conflict between the retributive logic of the early Christian historians and what began to emerge as the central features of Christian faith: forgiveness and redemption."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xx, 362 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Early Christian historiography.".
• catalog identifier "0304704067".
• catalog identifier "0826452949 (hardback)".
• catalog identifier "9780826452948 (hdbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Early Christian historiography.".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : Continuum,".
• catalog relation "Early Christian historiography.".
• catalog subject "270.1/072 21".
• catalog subject "BR138 .T76 2000".
• catalog subject "Church history Primitive and early church, approximately 30-600 Historiography.".
• catalog subject "Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Historiography.".
• catalog subject "Retribution Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, approximately 30-600.".
• catalog subject "Retribution Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Abbreviations -- -- Part 1 Bases and beginnings -- -- 1. Backdrop : retributive principles in traditional societies and ancient historiography -- 2. The first Christian historian : Luke and his two books -- -- Part 2 Centrepiece : the Eusebian achievement -- -- 3. Towards historical triumphalism : Eusebius, Lactantius and their predecessors -- 4. The man in the middle : Rufinus of Aquileia between East and West -- -- Part 3 The Byzantine East -- -- 5. Church history as nonconformism : retributive and eschatological elements in Athanasius and Philostorgius -- 6. The golden chain of Byzantinism : the Tripartite ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret -- -- Part 4 The Latin West -- -- 7. History as theodicy : Augustine's De civitate Dei -- 8. Consolations of history under the declining Western empire : Sulpicius and Orosius -- -- Aftermath -- Select bibliography -- Index.".
• catalog title "Early Christian historiography : narratives of retributive justice / G. W. Trompf.".
• catalog type "text".