The early church

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Rome and the Mediterranean world -- Rome and first-century Judaism -- The primitive community 41-70 -- The old Israel and the new 70-135 -- The Gnostics, Marcion 130-80 -- A generation of crisis 160-85 -- Three cities : Rome, Carthage and Alexandria 185-235 -- Origen -- Decius-Valerian : a decade of persecution 249-59 -- The dawn of the new era 260-303 -- The great persecution 303-12 -- East and West to Nicaea -- The Arian controversy 325-60 -- Julian the Apostate 361-3 -- The triumph of orthodoxy 363-82 -- Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius 381-95 -- Asceticism and the monastic movement in the fourth century -- St. Augustine of Hippo 354-430 -- The conflicts of Eastern Christendom 381-431 -- The development of the papacy from Damasus to Celestine 378-440 -- Leo and Chalcedon 440-61 -- Church and people from Constantine to Leo.