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Translator's Preface ix
Preface to the First German Edition ix
Preface to the Second German Edition xv
BOOK I

INTRODUCTORY

Chapter I. Judaism: Its Diffusion and Limits 1-18
Chapter II. The External Conditions of the World-wide Expansion of the Christian Religion 19-23

Chapter III. The Internal Conditions Determining the World-wide Expansion of the Christian Religion—Religious Syncretism

24-35
Chapter IV. Jesus Christ and the Universal Mission 36-43
Chapter V. The Transition from the Jewish to the Gentile Mission 44-72
Chapter VI. Results of the Mission of Paul and of the First Missionaries 73-83
BOOK II

MISSION-PREACHING IN WORD AND DEED

Introduction 84-85
Chapter I. The Religious Characteristics of the Mission-Preaching 86-100
Chapter II. The Gospel of the Saviour and of Salvation 101-124
xviiiChapter III. The Conflict with Demons 125-146
Chapter IV. The Gospel of Love and Charity 147-198

Chapter V. The Religion of the Spirit and of Power, of Moral Earnestness and Holiness

199-218

Chapter VI. The Religion of Authority and of Reason, of the Mysteries and of Transcendentalism

219-239

Chapter VII. The Tidings of the New People and of the Third Race: The Historical and Political Consciousness of Christendom

240-265
Excursus. Christians as a Third Race, in the Judgment of Their Opponents 266-278
Chapter VIII. The Religion of a Book and a Historical Realization 279-289
Chapter IX. The Conflict with Polytheism and Idolatry 290-311
Epilogue. Christianity in its Completed Form as Syncretistic Religion 312-318
BOOK III

THE MISSIONARIES: THE METHODS OF THE MISSION
AND THE COUNTER-MOVEMENTS

Chapter I. The Christian Missionaries (Apostles, Evangelists, and Prophets or Teachers: The Informal Missionaries)

319-368
Excursus. Travelling: The Exchange of Letters and Literature. 369-380
Chapter II. Methods of the Mission: Catechizing and Baptism, the Invasion of Domestic Life 381-398
Chapter III. The Names of Christian Believers 399-418
Excursus I. Friends (οἱ φίλοι) 419-421
Excursus II. Christian Names 422-430
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Chapter IV. The Organisation of the Christian Community, as Bearing upon the Christian Mission

431-444

Excursus I. Ecclesiastical Organisation and the Episcopate (in the Provinces, the Cities, and the Villages), from Pius to Constantine

445-482
Excursus II. The Catholic Confederation and the Mission 483-484
Excursus III. The Primacy of Rome in Relation to the Mission 485-486
Chapter V. Counter-Movements 487-513
Addenda 514
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Mission Map

1. Only those towns are marked on the map in which it can be proved that Christian communities existed prior to 180 A.D.

2. Places where Christian communities are demonstrable or certain prior to Trajan are underlined.

3. Places which are not quite certain as towns with a Christian community prior to 180 A.D. are put within brackets.

4. The shading indicates that while Christians certainly existed in the district in question, the names of the cities where they stayed have not been preserved. Except in the case of Egypt, the shading is omitted whenever even one town in the province in question can be shown to have had a Christian church.

5. The principal Roman roads are marked by double lines.

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