The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1: Origins to Constantine

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 10
List of maps......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 22
Chart: Roman emperors and bishops of Rome and Alexandria......Page 23
List of abbreviations of primary and secondary sources......Page 26
Prelude: Jesus Christ, foundation of Christianity......Page 50
Part I. The Political, Social and Religious Setting......Page 84
1. Galilee and Judaea in the first century......Page 86
2. The Jewish diaspora......Page 102
Part II. The Jesus Movements......Page 134
4. Jewish Christianity......Page 136
5. Gentile Christianity......Page 152
6. Johannine Christianity......Page 174
7. Social and ecclesial life of the earliest Christians......Page 194
Part III. Community Traditions and Self-Definition......Page 224
8. The emergence of the written record......Page 226
9. Marcion and the ‘canon’......Page 244
10. Self-definition vis-a-vis the Jewish matrix......Page 263
11. Self-definition vis-a-vis the Graeco-Roman world......Page 279
12. Self-differentiation among Christian groups: the Gnostics and their opponents......Page 294
13. Truth and tradition: Irenaeus......Page 310
14. The self-defining praxis of the developing ecclesia......Page 323
Part IV. Regional Varieties of Christianity in the First Three Centuries......Page 342
15. From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth......Page 344
Part V. The Shaping of Christian Theology......Page 462
23. Institutions in the pre-Constantinian ecclesia......Page 464
24. Monotheism and creation......Page 483
25. Monotheism and Christology......Page 501
26. Ecclesiology forged in the wake of persecution......Page 519
27. Towards a Christian paideia......Page 534
Part VI. \'Aliens\' Become Citizens: Towards Imperial Patronage......Page 550
28. Persecutions: genesis and legacy......Page 552
29. Church and state up to c.300 ce......Page 573
30. Constantine and the ‘peace of the church’......Page 587
31. The first Council of Nicaea......Page 601
32. Towards a Christian material culture......Page 617
Conclusion: retrospect and prospect......Page 635
Bibliographies......Page 639
Index......Page 732