| PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION |
xv |
| PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION |
xvi |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS |
xvii |
| GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY |
xli |
| INTRODUCTION |
|
| INTRODUCTION: PATROLOGY AS A SUBJECT |
3 |
| PART ONE: APOSTOLIC AND POSTAPOSTOLIC LITERATURE |
|
| INTRODUCTION: THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE |
9 |
| CHAPTER ONE: BIBLICAL APOCRYPHA |
13 |
| CHAPTER TWO: POSTAPOSTOLIC LITERATURE |
45 |
| PART TWO: LITERATURE OF THE PERIOD OF PERSECUTION (MID-SECOND TO EARLY FOURTH CENTURIES) |
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| INTRODUCTION: THE IMPACT OF PERSECUTION |
63 |
| CHAPTER THREE: GREEK LITERATURE |
69 |
| CHAPTER FOUR: BEGININGS OF LATIN LITERATURE |
149 |
| PART THREE: LITERATURE OF THE ASCENDING IMPERIAL CHURCH (EARLY FOURTH CENTURY TO CA. 430) |
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| INTRODUCTION: ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH CENTURY |
187 |
| CHAPTER FIVE: FIRST PHASE OF ARIANISM |
223 |
| CHAPTER SIX: APOLLINARIANISM AND THE SECOND PHASE OF ARIANISM |
262 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN: PASTORS, EXEGETES, AND ASCETICS |
296 |
| CHAPTER EIGHT: MONASTIC AND HAGIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE |
352 |
| CHAPTER NINE: AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO |
386 |
| PART FOUR: LITERATURE OF THE TRANSITION FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (CA. 430 TO THE MID-EIGHTH CENTURY) |
| INTRODUCTION: RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTIONS AND PROGRESSIVE WORKS |
457 |
| CHAPTER TEN: THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES OF THE FIFTH CENTURY |
461 |
| CHAPTER ELEVEN: LITERATURE OF THE LATIN WEST |
490 |
| CHAPTER TWELVE: LITERATURE OF THE GREEK EAST |
530 |
| PART FIVE: LITERTURE OF THE CHRISTIAN EAST |
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| CHAPTER THIRTEEN: INDEPENDENT BODIES OF LITERATURE |
549 |
| SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM HARMLESS, SJ |
581 |
| INDEX OF SUBJECTS |
605 |
| INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES |
623 |