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. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, c2017. - xxiv, 216 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.)
Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church history--Authorship.
Church history--Historiography.
Identity (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Identification (Religion)
270.1072 / LAI
Retrieving History : memory and identity formation in the early church / Stefana Dan Laing. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, c2017. - xxiv, 216 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.)
Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church history--Authorship.
Church history--Historiography.
Identity (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Identification (Religion)
270.1072 / LAI