Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Preface to the English Translation -- 1. Geographical and Historical Background -- 2. Origins of the African Church -- 3. Tertullian: the "Master" -- 4. Mid-Third-Century Persecution and Crisis in Africa -- 5. Cyprian, the "Pope" of Carthage -- 6. Organization and Life of the Third-Century African Churches -- 7. The Donatist Schism and the Division of African Christianity -- 8. The Diverse African Religious Landscape in Late Antiquity -- 9. Augustine of Hippo and the Glory of the "Great Church" -- 10. The Final Stages of the African Church: From the Vandal Invasion to the Arab Maghreb -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.