Does anyone know of a resource that attempts to identify the first time a particular idea in Christian thought was preserved in writing? I know that History of Ideas is a small department in the University that offer it but ...
Shalom MJ!
I would think that the standard textbooks on the history of dogma/theology would cover this subject, e.g. Hägglund's History of Theology or González's History of Christian Thought.
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This presentation of the history of theology is designed to provide an introduction to Christian dogmatic literature and to describe its stages of development. The history of theology is, therefore, a branch of the history of ideas; it deals with the sources of the Christian tradition and examines the development of ideas reflected therein.
Bengt Hagglund, History of Theology, electronic ed. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999), 5.
