Remembering The Christian Past by Robert L. Wilken
A wide-ranging examination of how Christian communities have constructed, preserved, and transmitted their past, tracing the role of memory from New Testament witness and the church fathers through medieval liturgy, the cult of saints, Reformation conflicts, and modern historiography; it argues that communal remembrance—shaped by scripture, ritual, teaching, art, and the commemoration of martyrs and holy figures—does more than record events, it forms identity, doctrine, and moral imagination, even as it generates tensions with the aims of critical historical inquiry.
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