Contents
Table of Contents
Early Years of the Christian Church.
Chapter I. Commencement of the Christian Church.
Chapter II. First Internal Conflict, and First Extension of the Church Beyond Jerusalem.
§ I. The Seven Deacons of the Church at Jerusalem. Stephen.
§ II. The Dispersion of the Christians. The Gospel in Samaria. Simon Magus. Philip and the Eunuch.
§ III. Foundation of the Church of Antioch, and Conversion of the Centurion Cornelius.
§ IV. The Church at Jerusalem at the time of the First Mission beyond Judæa.
Chapter IV. The Two Conferences at Jerusalem, and the Dispute at Antioch.
Chapter I. Missions of the Church During This Period.
§ I. Various Phases of St. Paul's Captivity.
§ II. Mission of the other Apostles during this period.
§ III. Mode of Primitive Evangelization. Origin of the First Three Gospels.
Chapter III. Various Forms of Christian Doctrine in the Second Period of the Apostolic Age.
§ I. Fundamental Unity in Diversity.
§ III. Doctrinal Type of Peter. The First Two Gospels.
§ V. God “spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all.”
Chapter IV. State of the Church During This Period. First Symptoms of Heresy.
§ I. The yudaizing tendency in the Churches of Palestine, Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia, and Italy.
§ II. Dualistic heresies in Crete, at Colosse, and at Ephesus.
Book Third. Period of St. John, or Close of the Apostolic Age and Transition to the Age Following.
Chapter I. The Fall of Jerusalem and Its Consequences.
§ I. Destruction of the Holy City.
§ II. Consequences to the Church of the Destruction of the Temple.
Chapter II. St. John the Apostle and Prophet.
Note A. Literature of the Subject.
Note B. The Chronology of the Acts.
Note C. On the Principal Source of the History of the Primitive Church.
Note E. The Council at Jerusalem.
Note F. On the Supposed Second Captivity of Paul.
Note G. The Epistles of St. Paul.
Note H. On the Epistles of James and of Jude.
Note I. On the Second Epistle of Peter.
Note J. On the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Note K. Diversity of Opinions as to the Theology of the Apostolic Age.