TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laing, Stefana Dan, 1971-  
TI  - Retrieving history : : memory and identity formation in the early church 
SN  - 9780801096433 (pbk.)  
AV  - BV4597.56 .L35 2017  
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - Baker Academic
KW  - Memory
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church history
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Identification (Religion)
N1  - 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
ER  -