CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 THE JESUS OF HISTORY AND HIS MOVEMENT, AND THE POLITICS OF HIS DAY -- CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST CONFRONTATION WITH PAGANISM UNDER NERO AND THE MARKAN COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER 3 THE POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF THE AUGUSTAN REVOLUTION: COSMIC RECONSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER 4 JOHN THE SEER'S APOCALYPTIC RESPONSE: AN ATTACK ON AUGUSTAN COSMIC RECONSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER 5 EARLY CHRISTIAN COSMIC REORDERING: ST LUKE, CLEMENT AND IGNATIUS -- CHAPTER 6 THE APOLOGISTS AND THE POLITICS OF THE TRINITY: LOGOS AND COSMOLOGY -- CHAPTER 7 CYPRIAN AGAINST DECIUS: OPPOSING ESCHATOLOGIES AND THE CREATION OF A STATE WITHIN THE STATE -- CHAPTER 8 CONSTANTINE, THE DIVINE ORDER OF THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE AND ITS EUROPEAN LEGACY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- 1. SCRIPTURE -- 2. EARLY CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH WRITERS -- 3. CLASSICAL WORKS, EPIGRAPHY, AND COINS WORKS -- 4. LATIN WORDS -- 5. GREEK TERMS -- 6. MODERN AUTHORS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- 7. SUBJECTS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.