Dedication Foreword Introduction
30 AD to 100 AD: THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
Pentecost day and afterwards The conversion of St. Paul The dispersion of the Apostles The early missions of Sts. Peter and Paul The missions of Sts. Jude and Thomas The Council of Jerusalem The later missions of Sts. Peter and Paul The Neronian Persecution The Jewish Revolt 66-70 AD The Church in the late first century AD St. John the Apostle
100 AD to 200 AD: THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS AND APOLOGISTS Sts. Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna Hermas and St. Justin Martyr St. Irenaeus of Lyons and the Gnostic heresy The Catechetical School of Alexandria
200 AD to 300 AD: THE PERSECUTIONS AND THE POPES Heresy and Schism in the Pontificate of St. Callistus I The Persecutions of Maximinus Thrax and Decius Pope St. Stephen I and St. Cyprian of Carthage The Persecutions of Valerian and Aurelian
300 AD to 400 AD: THE TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS AND OF ORTHODOXY The Diocletian Persecution The Ascendancy of Constantine The Triumph of Constantine The Donatist Heresy Arianism and the Council of Nicaea The Post-Nicene Struggle The Triumph of Orthodoxy
400 AD to 476 AD: THE GREATEST OF THE FATHERS AND THE FALL OF ROME The Genius of St. Augustine The Nestorian and Monophysite Heresies The Barbarian Invasions up to 476 AD
Appendices A - Popes of the Early Church 30-476 AD B - Roman Emperors from the time of Christ to 476 AD C - Creeds of the Early Church 1st -5th Centuries AD Acknowledgments
