Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Volume I PART I: THE CONTEXT -- 1 The Mediterranean context of early Christianity -- 2 Armies, emperors and bureaucrats -- 3 Graeco-Roman philosophy and religion -- 4 Jewish tradition and culture -- PART II: CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT -- 5 The Galilean world of Jesus -- 6 Early Jewish Christianity -- 7 Paul and the development of gentile Christianity -- 8 The Jesus tradition: The gospel writers' strategies of persuasion -- 9 Christianity in the second and third centuries -- 10 From Constantine to Theodosius (and beyond) -- PART III: COMMUNITY FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE -- 11 Mission and expansion -- 12 The development of office in the early church -- 13 Christian regional diversity -- 14 Monasticism -- PART IV: EVERYDAY CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE -- 15 Social levels, morals and daily life -- 16 Sex and sexual renunciation -- 17 Women, worship and mission: the church in the household -- 18 Communication and travel -- 19 Worship, practice and belief -- PART V: THE INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE -- 20 The Apostolic Fathers -- 21 The Apologists -- 22 The early theologians -- 23 Later theologians of the Greek East -- 24 Later theologians of the West -- 25 Creeds, councils and doctrinal development -- 26 Biblical interpretation -- Volume II PART VI: THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE -- 27 Architecture: the first five centuries -- 28 Art -- 29 Music -- 30 Imaginative literature -- PART VII: EXTERNAL CHALLENGES -- 31 Martyrdom and political oppression -- 32 Graeco-Roman philosophical opposition -- 33 Popular Graeco-Roman responses to Christianity -- PART VIII: INTERNAL CHALLENGES -- 34 Internal renewal and dissent in the early Christian world -- 35 Gnosticism -- 36 Montanism -- 37 Donatism -- 38 Arianism -- PART IX: PROFILES -- 39 Origen.

40 Tertullian -- 41 Perpetua and Felicitas -- 42 Constantine -- 43 Anthony of the Desert -- 44 Athanasius -- 45 John Chrysostom -- 46 Jerome -- 47 Ambrose -- 48 Augustine -- 49 Ephrem the Syrian -- 50 Julian the Apostate -- Index of biblical references -- Index of classical references -- Index of Jewish references -- Index of patristic references -- Subject index.