Book Description
- Title:
- The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
- Author:
- Adolf von Harnack [1851-1930]
- Publication Year:
- 1904
- Location:
- London
- Publisher:
- Williams and Norgate
- Pages:
- 494+488
- Subjects:
- Church History, Early Ehurch
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
Table of Contents
- Book I. Introductory
- Judaism: Its Diffusion and Limits
- The External Conditions of the World-wide. Expansion of the Christian Religion
- The Internal Conditions Determining the World-wide Expansion of the Christian Religion-Religious Syncretism
- Jesus Christ and the Universal Mission, According to the Gospels
- The Transition from the Jewish to the Gentile Mission
Excursus. The Alleged Council of the Apostles at Antioch
- Book II: The Mission-Preaching in Word and Deed
- The Religious Characteristics of the Mission-Preaching
- The Gospel of the Saviour and of Salvation Excursus. The Conflict with Demons
- The Gospel of Love and Charity
- The Religion of the Spirit and of Power, of Moral Earnestness and Holiness
- Religion of Authority and of Reason, of the Mysteries and of Transcendentalism
- The Tidings of the New People and of the Third Race: The Historical and Political Consciousness of Christendom
Excursus. Christians as s Third Race, in the Judgment of Their Opponents
- The Religion of a Book and of a History Realized
- The Conflict With Polytheism and Idolatry Epilogue. Christianity in its Completed Form as Syncretistic Religion
- Book III
- The Christian Missionaries (Apostles, Evangelists, Prophets, Teachers: The Informal Missionaries) Excursus. Travelling: The Exchange of Letters and Literature
- Methods of the Mission: Baptism, and the Invasion of Domestic Life
- The Names of Christian Believers
Excursus I. "Friends" (ϕίλοι)
Excursus Ii. Christian Names
- The Organization of the Christian Community, as Bearing Upon the Christian Mission. The Episcopate
Excursus. Ecclesiastical Organization and The Episcopate, From Pius to Constantine
- Book IV. The Spread of the Christian Religion
- General Evidence for the Extent and Intensity of the Spread of Christianity. The Main Stages in the History of the Mission
- On the Inward Spread off Christianity
- Among the Cultured Classes (Aristocratic and Official)
- At Court
- In the Army
- Among Women
- Extension of Christianity Down to 325 A.D.
- Places in Which Christian Communities or Christians Can Be Traced as Early as the First Century (Previous to Trajan)
- Places Where Christian Communities Can Be Traced Before 180 A.D. (i.e. Before the Death of Marcus Aurelius)
- Places Where Christian Communities can be Shown to Have Existed Previous to 325 A.D. (Council of Nicea); Together with Some Brief Account of the Spread of Christianity Throughout the Various Provinces
- Palestine
- Phoenicia
- Coele-Syria
- Cyprus
- Enessa and the East (Mesopotamia, Persia, Parthia, and India)
- Arabia
- Egypt and the Thebais, Libya and Pentapolis
- Cicilia
- Asia Minor in General
- Cappadocia
- Armenia, Diopontus, Paphlagonia, Pontus Polemoniactus
- Bithynia
- Galatia, Phrygia, and Pisidia (with Lycaonia)
- Asia (Lydia, Mysia) and Caria
- Lycia, Pamphylia, and Isauria
- Crete and the Islands
- Thrace, Macedonia, Dardania, Epirus, Thessaly, Greece
- Moesia and Pannonia, Noricum and Dalmatia
- The North and North-West Coasts of the Black Sea
- Rome, Middle and Lower Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia
- Upper Italy and the Romagna
- Gaul, Belgium, Germany, Rhaetia
- England
- Africa, Numidia, Mauretania, and Tripolitana
- Spain
Appendix. The Spread of Christianity and the Spread of Mithraism
- Results
- Index
- New Testament Passages
- General
- Geographical