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Originally published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.
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غیرمرجع
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CONTENTS NOTE
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Part 1. Bases and beginnings -- Backdrop : retributive principles in traditional societies and ancient historiography -- The first Christian historian : Luke and his two books -- Part 2. Centrepiece: the Eusebian achievement -- Towards historical triumphalism : Eusebius, Lactantius and their predecessors -- The man in the middle : Rufinus of Aquileia between East and West -- Part 3. The Byzantine East -- Church history as nonconformism : retributive and eschatological elements in Athanasius and Philostorgius -- The golden chain of Byzantinism : the Tripartite ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret -- Part 4. The Latin West -- History as theodicy : Augustine's De civitate Dei -- Consolations of history under the declining Western empire : Sulpicius and Orosius.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]336[-344( and index.
OTHER VARIANT TITLES
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narratives of retribution
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Church history- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600- Historiography
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Retribution- Religious aspects- Christianity- History of doctrines- Early church, ca. 30-600