Early Christianity and the Challenge of Writing History - Insights from Retrospective Approaches

Proposing a contemporary, post-postmodern reading of history that goes far beyond the field of Early Christianity, this study interrogates traditional historical approaches and challenges scholars and students to contradict, engage with, and argue over established interpretations of events.

List of contents

1. On space in-between; 2. On absence; 3. Cognitive history or history from the unwritten; 4. The timeless times of history; 5. Four fundamental concepts of historiography; Bibliography.

About the author

Markus Vinzent held the Chair for the History of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London from 2010-2022. A Fellow of the European Academy of Science in Vienna, and the Max-Weber-Institut for Advanced Studies at Erfurt University, he is author, most recently, of Resetting the Origins of Christianity (2023) and Writing the History of Early Christianity (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Markus Vinzent
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.10.2025
• EAN: 9781009638203
• ISBN: 978-1-009-63820-3
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, Middle East, Christianity, BCE to c 500 CE, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, c 1 to c 500 CE