The Early Church

Description

i From Jerusalem to Rome 9 The Jewish background - The earliest Church - The Gentile Church - Encounter with the Roman Empire 2 Faith and Order 32 The bonds of unity - Gnosticism - The Ministry and the Bible - Forms of the Ministry 3 Expansion and Growth 54 Causes ofsuccess - The geographical extension of the Church - The defence of the Faith 4 Justin and Irenaeus 74 Justin Martyr - Irenaeus 5 Easter, the Monarchian Controversyy and Tertullian 84 Easter - The Monarchian Controversy - Tertullian 6 Clement of Alexandria and Origen 94 Clement of Alexandria - Origen 7 Churchy State and Society in the Third Century 116 The pagan revival and the persecution of Decius - Cyprian - The Great Persecution and its consequences 8 Constantine and the Council of Nicaea 125 9 The Arian Controversy after the Council of Nicaea 133 From Nicaea to the death of Constantine - The Church under the sons of Constantine - From Julian to Theodosius I i o The Conflict ofPaganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century 152 11 Church, State and Society from Julian to Theodosius 1 60 1 2 The Ascetic Movement 1 74 1 3 The Controversy about Origen and the Tragedy ofJohn Chrysostom 184 14 The Problem of the Person of Christ 192 Diodore, Theodore, and Apollinaris - Cyril and Nestorius - The 'Monophysite* Council of Ephesus and the reaction at Chalcedon - The search for reconciliation - The doctrine of one will 1 5 The Development of Latin Christian Thought 2 1 3 Jerome and the beginnings of maturity - The conversion of Augustine - The Donatist schism and the problem of coercion - 'The City of God' and the Pelagian controversy - The Holy Trinity 16 The Papacy 237 1 7 The Church and the Barbarians 247 18 Worship and Art 258 Liturgy - Daily offices - Early Church music - Christian art Conclusion 285 Suggestions for Further Reading 290