HISTORY OF THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCH

(Philip Schaff Editor)


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SECOND PERIOD

ANTE-NICENE CHRISTIANITY

A.D. 100–311 (325).


CHAPTER I: Spread of Christianity.

CHAPTER II: Persecution of Christianity and Christian Martyrdom.

CHAPTER III. Literary Contest of Christianity with Judaism and Heathenism.

CHAPTER IV: Organization and Discipline of the Church.

CHAPTER V: Christian Worship.

CHAPTER VI: Christian Art.

CHAPTER VII: The Church in the Catacombs.

CHAPTER VIII: The Christian Life in Contrast with Pagan Corruption.

CHAPTER IX: Ascetic Tendencies.

CHAPTER X: Montanism.

CHAPTER XI: The Heresies of the Ante-Nicene Age.

CHAPTER XII: The Development of Catholic Theology.

CHAPTER XIII: Ecclesiastical Literature of the Ante-Nicene Age, and Biographical Sketches of the Church Fathers.