W. H. C. Frend, perhaps the most respected living historian of early Christianity, was Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Preface Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: Rome and the Mediterranean World Rome and First-Century Judaism The Primitive Community 41-70 The Old Israel and the New 70-135 The Gnostics. Marcion 130-80 A Generation of Crisis 160-85 Three Cities: Rome, Carthage and Alexandria 185-234 Origen Decius-Valerian: A Decade of Persecution 249-59 The Dawn of the New Era 260-303 The Great Persecution 303-12 East and West to Nicaea PART TWO: The Arian Controversy 325-60 Julian the Apostate 361-3 The Triumph of Orthodoxy 363-82 Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius 381-95 Asceticism and the Monastic Movement in the Fouth Century St. Augustine of Hippo 354-430 The Conflicts of Eastern Christendom 381-431 The Development of the Papacy from Damasus to Celestine 378-440 Leo and Chalcedon 440-61 Church and People from Constantine to Leo A Bibliography of General Works on Church History Chronological Guide: Events Relevant to Church History to 461 Notes Index