The Origins of Latin Christianity

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List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments General Introduction PART 1 LATIN JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY Introduction 1. THE TRANSLATIONS The Latin Bible Translations of Judaeo-Christian Writings The Muratorian Fragment 2. LATIN JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY: ANTI-JEWISH POLEMICS V Esdras The Adversus Judaeos The De Montibus Sina et Sian 3. LATIN JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY: THE CONFRONTATION WITH PAGANISM The Passio Perpetuae The De centesima, sexagesima, tricesima The Sermon De aleatoribus 4. THE SURVIVAL OF JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY IN THE THIRD CENTURY Commodian's Theology The De Pascha computus The De Fabrica mundi PART II CHRISTIANITY AND LATIN CULTURE Introduction 5. TERTULLIAN AND JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY Tertullian's Reaction against Judaeo-Christianity Tertullian and the Jewish Apocrypha 1. I Enoch 2. The Book of Adam 3. The Sibylline Oracles III Tertullian and Tradition 6. MINUCIUS FELIX AND HIS SOURCES The Theology of the Octavius The World and Man 7. TERTULLIAN AND STOICISM Tertullian and Philosophy Tertullian's Stoicism Tertullian's Criticism of Platonism 8. NOVATIAN AND THE COSMIC RELIGION The Beauty of the World The Harmony of Opposites The Cosmic Chariot Freedom 9. CYPRIAN AND THE AGE OF THE WORLD PART III THE LATIN FATHERS AND THE BIBLE Introduction 10. THE TESTIMONIA Tertullian's Adversus ]udaeos Commodlan's Testimonia Cyprian's Ad Quirinum 11. TYPOLOGY The Types of Christ Types of the Church Types of the Sacraments 12. THE EXEMPLA Daniel and the Three Young Men Job Tobit 13. NOVATIAN AND THE THEOPHANIES PART IV LATIN THEOLOGY Introduction 14. TERTULLIAN AND HIS METHOD Substantia Census Status Gradus 15. TERTULLIAN'S SYSTEM The Trinity The Creation of the World The Soul of Man The Flesh of Christ The Intermediate State The Resurrection of the Dead 16. THE TWO CITIES Idolatry and Demonology Pompa diaboli The Empire as the Persecutor of Christians 17. CYPRIAN'S ECCLESIOLOGY The Essence of Christianity The Christian Society Vigor Ecclesiae Militia Christi Unanimitas concordiae Conclusion Postscript by John Austin Baker Bibliography Textual Indexes a. Old Testament b. Apocrypha (Biblical) c. New Testament d. Jewish Writings e. Jewish Christian Writings f. Gnostic Writings g. Fathers of the Church h. Miscellaneous Writings General Index