Early Christian Historiography Narratives of Retribution 1st Edition by Garry Trompf 1845531884 9781845531881

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ISBN 10: 1845531884 

ISBN 13: 9781845531881

Author: Garry W. Trompf

First Published in 2014. This book describes the developing application of retributive principles in historical narratives before Christ. It assesses degrees of concern in the first history-writers of the world’s most widespread monotheistic tradition to discern divine justice in human affairs.

Table of contents:

Part 1 Bases and beginnings
1 Backdrop: retributive principles in traditional societies and ancient historiography
Retributive logic as product of culture and religion: from traditional societies to large polities
The historicization of retributive logic
The Hebrews
The Greeks
Notes

2 The first Christian historian: Luke and his two books
Retribution in Graeco-Roman and Jewish historiography around the time of Christ
Reciprocal principles and divine judgements in Luke—Acts
The issue of satisfactory conclusions to Luke and Acts
Notes

Part 2 Centrepiece: the Eusebian achievement
3 Towards historical triumphalism: Eusebius, Lactantius and their predecessors
The hiatus: sustaining Christian historical orientations during the time of persecution
Reflections with relief: explaining God’s victory under the Pax Constantiniana
Notes

4 The man in the middle: Rufinus of Aquileia between East and West
Continuing Eusebius: the hermeneutics of retribution
Latinizing retributive logic for Church history
Notes

Part 3 The Byzantine East
5 Church history as nonconformism: retributive and eschatological elements in Athanasius and Philostorgius
Athanasius and historical polemics
Arian answers
Notes

6 The golden chain of Byzantinism: the Tripartite ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret
Events from Constantine to the death of Julian
From Jovian to the Theodosian succession
Notes

Part 4 The Latin West
7 History as theodicy: Augustine’s De civitate Dei
Rectifying assignations of blessing and chastisement
The application of Augustinian hermeneutics to history
Notes

8 Consolations of history under the declining Western empire: Sulpicius and Orosius
Half-consoled by history? Sulpicius and his Chronica
Surmounting paganism’s miserable past: Orosius
Notes

Aftermath
Postlude to late antiquity
Notes

Select bibliography
Background
Classical Hebrew historiography
Classical Greek and Latin historiography
Luke and his world
Lactantius and Eusebius
Rufinus
Athanasius to Philostorgius
The Tripartite Historians
Augustine
Sulpicius and Orosius
Aftermath

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