Christians Shaping Identity explores different ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them to the 12th century C.E. It also illustrates how modern readings of that past continue to shape Christian identity.

Geoffrey D. Dunn, Ph.D. (2000), Australian Catholic University, is Senior Research Fellow at that university. He has published extensively on North African Christianity and fifth-century Roman bishops. Most recently he is editor of The Bishop of Rome in Late Antiquity (Ashgate, 2015).
Wendy Mayer, Ph.D. (1996), Australian Catholic University, is Research Fellow at that university. She has published extensively on John Chrysostom and his milieu, including, with Pauline Allen, The Churches of Syrian Antioch 300-638 CE (Peeters, 2012).