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Roland Kany

Tempora Christiana. Vom Umgang des antiken Christentums mit Geschichte

One could opine that Christian intellectuals of the first six centuries were particularly concerned with matters of history. Their religion was deeply rooted in historical events and the Jewish as well as the pagan Greek cultures had great traditions of historiography. However, ancient Christianity had a comparatively limited interest in history. No continuation of the Acts of the Apostles appeared in the 2^nd or 3^rd century. In the ancient Latin West no original Church History was ever written except the two books added by Rufinus to his translation of Eusebius' work. The article discusses the reasons for this lack of interest in history and for the different approaches of Greek and Latin Christians of late antiquity to the subject.

Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0949-9571
Volume: 10, 06/2007
Pages: 564 - 579

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