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Church and Society in Documents, 100-600 AD
By Alan Hayes
Overview
Church and Society in Documents, 100-600 AD illustrates the diversity of early Christian literature, with its many genres, its many cultural settings, and its many purposes and functions. The documents included in the volume are truly primary sources, witnesses in the first six centuries of Christianity. In them, students can read the very words of early Christians.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence
Chapter 2
Didache
Ignatius, To the Ephesians
Chapter 3
Gospel of Thomas
Chapter 4
Justin, Second Apology
Chapter 5
Martyrdom of Perpetua
Chapter 6
Hippolytus? Apostolic Tradition?
Chapter 7
Origen, "First Homily on the Song of Songs"
Chapter 8
Cyprian, Treatise to Demetrianus
Chapter 9
Acts of the Council of Nicea
Chapter 10
Gregory Nazianzen, Letters 101, 102, 202 (Against the Apollinarians)
Chapter 11
Ambrose, Letters 20, 21
Chapter 12
John Crysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of St. John, 62
Chapter 13
Paulinus of Nola, Letter 29
Chapter 14
Augustine of Hippo, Letter 211 ("The Rule")
Chapter 15
Patrick, Confession
Chapter 16
Pope Leo I, "The Tome"
Chapter 17
Antonius, The LIfe and Daily Mode of Living of Blessed Simeon the Stylite
Chapter 18
The Penitential of Columbanus
