A political history of early Christianity

Abstract

Preface Abbreviations for Journals Standard Works of Reference Abbreviations for Ancient Authors Chapter 1. The Jesus of History and his Movement, and the Politics of his Day. Chapter 2. The First Confrontation with Paganism under Nero and the Markan Community. Chapter 3. The Political Theology of the Augustan Revolution: Cosmic Reconstruction. Chapter 4. John the Seer's Apocalyptic Response: an attack on Augustan Cosmic Reconstruction. Chapter 5. Early Christain Cosmic Re-ordering: ST. Luke, Clement and Ignatius. Chapter 6. The Apologists and the Politics of the Trinity: Logos and Cosmology. Chapter 7. Cyprian against Decius: Opposing Eschatologies and the Creation of a State within the State. Chapter 8. Constatntine, the Divine Order of the Christian Empire and its European Legacy.