Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest christianity / Frances Young
The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the new testament and the apostolic fathers / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
Gnostic literature / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
Apocryphal writings and acts of the martyrs / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
The apologists / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
Irenaeus of Lyon / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
Social and historical setting / John Behr
Articulating identity / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
Christian teaching / Frances Young
Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts / Frances Young
The Alexandrians / Ronald E. Heine
The beginnings of latin christian literature / Ronald E. Heine
Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons / Ronald E. Heine
Cyprian and novatian / Ronald E. Heine
The earliest Syriac literature / Sebastian P. Brock
Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century / Frances Young
Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique / Karen Jo Torjesen
Articulating identity / Ronald E. Heine
Christian teaching / John David Dawson
The significance of third-century Christian literature / Frances Young
Classical genres in Christian guise: Christian genres in classical guise / Frances Young
Arnobius and Lactanius / Oliver Nicholson
Eusebius and the birth of church history / Andrew Louth
The fourt-century Alexandrians- Athanasius and Didymus / Andrew Louth
Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius / Andrew Louth
The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth
Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose / David G. Hunter
Jerome and Rufinus / Mark Vessey
Augustine / Henry Chadwick
John Chrysostom and the Antiochene school of Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Andrew Louth
Cyril of Alexandria / Andrew Louth
Hagiography / Andrew Louth
Ephrem and the Syriac tradition / Sebastian P. Brock
The literature of the monastic movement / Andrew Louth
Woman and words: texts by and about women / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Conciliar records and canons / Andrew Louth
Social and historical setting / R. A. Markus
Articulating identity / Lewis Ayres
Christian teaching / Frances Young
Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation / Frances Young
