BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- TO MY BELOVED FAMILY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SECOND-CENTURY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE IN ITS HISTORICALCULTURAL CONTEXT -- 2 THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRISTIAN MONOTHEISM -- 3 THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRISTIAN SEXUAL MORALITY -- 4 CHRISTIAN LOYALTY TO THE EMPIRE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary
This work concerns the early Christians' self-definitions and self-representations in the context of pagan-Christian conflict, reflected in the literatures from the mid-second to the early third centuries (ca. 150 - 225 CE)
