From the Apostolic community to Constantine
By: by Karl Baus ; with a general introduction to church history by Hubert Jedin
Contributors: Jedin, Hubert, 1900-1980, editor
Series: Handbook of church history -- v. 1; Handbook of church history -- v.1.
Publisher: Herder and Herder
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Primitive and early church; Bibliography; Church history
Work titles: Von der Urgemeinde zur frühchristlichen Grosskirche
Notes: "Translated from the 3d. rev. ed. of: Handbuch der Kirchengeschicte ... Vol. 1. Von der Urgemeinde zur frühchristlichen Grosskirche."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-505).
Table of contents: title: General introduction to church history; title: Part one : The beginnings; title: Section one : Jewish Christianity; title: Judaism in the time of Jesus; title: Jesus of Nazareth and the church; title: The primitive church at Jerusalem; title: Section two : The way into the pagan world; title: The religious situation in the Graeco-Roman world at the time of its encounter with Christianity; title: The apostle Paul and the structure of the Pauline congregations; title: Peter's missionary activity and his sojourn and death in Rome; title: Section three : The post-apostolic age; title: The conflict between Christianity and the Roman state power; title: The religious world of the post-apostolic age as mirrored in its writings; title: The development of the church's organization; title: Heterodox Jewish-Christian currents; title: Section four : The church in the second century; title: The position of the church under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Martyrdom of the congregations of the Lyons and Vienne; title: Literary polemic against Christianity; title: The early Christian apologists of the second century; title: The dispute with Gnosticism; title: The rise of montanism and the church's defence against it; title: The expansion of Christianity down to the end of the second place; title: Part two : The great church of the early christian times (c. A.D. 180-324); title: Section one : The inner consolidation of the church in the third century; title: The attack of the pagan state on the church; title: Further development of Christian literature in the east in the third century; title: The development of Christian literature in the west in the third century; title: The first christological and Trinitarian controversies; title: Manichaeism; title: Further development of the liturgy; title: Spiritual life and morality in the communities of the third century; title: The holiness of the christian and his church; title: The development of the church's constitution in the third century; title: The extent of Christianity prior to the Diocletian persecution; title: Section two : The last attack of paganism and the final victory of the church; title: The intellectual struggle against Christianity at the end of the third century; title: Outbreak and course of the Diocletian persecution down to Galerius' edict of toleration; title: The definitive turning-point under Constantine the Great; title: The causes of the victory of the Christian religion. The scope and import of the "constantinian turning-point."