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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Translator's Preface | ix |
| Preface to the First German Edition | ix |
| Preface to the Second German Edition | xv |
| BOOK I | |
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| INTRODUCTORY | |
| Chapter I. Judaism: Its Diffusion and Limits | 1-18 |
| Chapter II. The External Conditions of the World-wide Expansion of the Christian Religion | 19-23 |
| Chapter III. The Internal Conditions Determining the World-wide Expansion of the Christian Religion—Religious Syncretism | 24-35 |
| Chapter IV. Jesus Christ and the Universal Mission | 36-43 |
| Chapter V. The Transition from the Jewish to the Gentile Mission | 44-72 |
| Chapter VI. Results of the Mission of Paul and of the First Missionaries | 73-83 |
| BOOK II | |
| MISSION-PREACHING IN WORD AND DEED | |
| Introduction | 84-85 |
| Chapter I. The Religious Characteristics of the Mission-Preaching | 86-100 |
| Chapter II. The Gospel of the Saviour and of Salvation | 101-124 |
| xviiiChapter III. The Conflict with Demons | 125-146 |
| Chapter IV. The Gospel of Love and Charity | 147-198 |
| Chapter V. The Religion of the Spirit and of Power, of Moral Earnestness and Holiness | 199-218 |
| Chapter VI. The Religion of Authority and of Reason, of the Mysteries and of Transcendentalism | 219-239 |
| Chapter VII. The Tidings of the New People and of the Third Race: The Historical and Political Consciousness of Christendom | 240-265 |
| Excursus. Christians as a Third Race, in the Judgment of Their Opponents | 266-278 |
| Chapter VIII. The Religion of a Book and a Historical Realization | 279-289 |
| Chapter IX. The Conflict with Polytheism and Idolatry | 290-311 |
| Epilogue. Christianity in its Completed Form as Syncretistic Religion | 312-318 |
| BOOK III | |
| THE MISSIONARIES: THE METHODS OF THE MISSION | |
| Chapter I. The Christian Missionaries (Apostles, Evangelists, and Prophets or Teachers: The Informal Missionaries) | 319-368 |
| Excursus. Travelling: The Exchange of Letters and Literature. | 369-380 |
| Chapter II. Methods of the Mission: Catechizing and Baptism, the Invasion of Domestic Life | 381-398 |
| Chapter III. The Names of Christian Believers | 399-418 |
| Excursus I. Friends (οἱ φίλοι) | 419-421 |
| Excursus II. Christian Names | 422-430 |
| xix Chapter IV. The Organisation of the Christian Community, as Bearing upon the Christian Mission | 431-444 |
| Excursus I. Ecclesiastical Organisation and the Episcopate (in the Provinces, the Cities, and the Villages), from Pius to Constantine | 445-482 |
| Excursus II. The Catholic Confederation and the Mission | 483-484 |
| Excursus III. The Primacy of Rome in Relation to the Mission | 485-486 |
| Chapter V. Counter-Movements | 487-513 |
| Addenda | 514 |
1. Only those towns are marked on the map in which it can be proved that Christian communities existed prior to 180 A.D.
2. Places where Christian communities are demonstrable or certain prior to Trajan are underlined.
3. Places which are not quite certain as towns with a Christian community prior to 180 A.D. are put within brackets.
4. The shading indicates that while Christians certainly existed in the district in question, the names of the cities where they stayed have not been preserved. Except in the case of Egypt, the shading is omitted whenever even one town in the province in question can be shown to have had a Christian church.
5. The principal Roman roads are marked by double lines.
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