Contemporary Historiography on Christianity in Roman Africa
Alden Bass
This essay follows the broad contours of patristic and ecclesiastical history relative to African Christianity. Rival Catholic Protestant narratives origin trajectory Christianity in early modern period continued influence historiography, even after acceptance critical historical methods 19th century. The advent archeological research colonial opened new vistas on ushered sociohistorical approach which characterized Christian studies 20th Finally, “linguistic turn” inspired by theory has directed recent toward issues surrounding identities Christians, rhetorical real.
Revista de historiografía