Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church

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God and the gods -- Community and morality -- The message and the messengers -- Proliferation and excess -- Defence and definition : early apologists -- Tradition and the truth : Irenaeus of Lyons -- Latin theology launched : Tertullian -- Sectarian religion and episcopal authority -- One church, one baptism : Cyprian -- The Alexandrian heritage : Clement -- Origen the theologian -- The rise of Constantine -- Arius and the Council of Nicaea -- Councils and controversies : 327-361 -- Towards synthesis : 361-378 -- Theodosius I and the Council of Constantinople -- New spirituality : the monastic movement -- Origenism, Jerome and John Chrysostom -- Augustine of Hippo -- Cyril, Nestorius and the Council of Ephesus -- Eutyches, Leo and the Council of Chalcedon -- The heritage of ancient theology.