What is the biggest challenge for the writing of early Christian history? As Markus Vinzent suggests in this study, it is not the interpretation of material evidence. Rather, it is the interpreter herself or himself. Unlike most historical studies, which aim at keeping to sources, facts, and close readings of texts as objectively as possible, Vinzent here offers a new approach: autobiographical historiography and personal methodological reflection, including test cases that advocate transparency, courage, and willingness to be challenged. He takes the reader on a journey through the notions of 'space', 'space in-between', 'the argument from silence', 'cognitive historiography' and 'evolution', 'time', 'scholarship', 'evidence/fact', 'tradition' and 'future'. Proposing a contemporary, post-postmodern reading of history that goes far beyond the field of Early Christianity, Vinzent's anachronological study interrogates traditional historical approaches and challenges both conservative and progressive scholars and students to contradict, engage with, and argue over established interpretations of events.
Les mer
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.
This book shows how interpreters themselves can be one of the biggest challenges for the writing of early Christian history.

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ISBN
9781009638203
Publisert
2026-02-19
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
622 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
350

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Biografisk notat

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).