Bruce gives the reader a feel for the evangelistic fervor of the Apostles and the early Christians in a resource filled with solid, well-reasoned, richly researched facts.

Table of Contents

• Publisher's Introduction
• Preface
• Part I: The Dawn of Christianity
• I. Strangers in Corinth
• II. When the Time was Ripe
• III. A Light for the Nations
• IV. The Light Shines in the Darkness
• V. The Darkness Did Not Put it Out
• VI. The New Community
• VII. The Rabbi of Tarsus
• VIII. Antioch on the Orontes
• IX. Advance in Palestine
• X. The Council of Jerusalem
• XI. Into Europe
• XII. Paul and His Converts
• XIII. Diana of the Ephesians
• XIV. Christianity at Rome
• XV. Palestine: The End of the Beginning
• Part II: The Growing Day
• XVI. The Things That Are Not Cesar's
• XVII. The Fiery Trial
• XVIII. Christian Life and Worship
• XIX. Church Government
• XX. Relations Between Churches
• XXI. Prophets and Montanists
• XXII. The New Testament Writings
• XXIII. Marcion And After
• XXIV. The Earliest Christian Creed
• XXV. Early Christian Heresies
• XXVI. Defining the Faith
• XXVII. The Jews After A.D. 70
• XXVIII. Jews and Christians in Western Asia.
• XXIX. Christianity Farther East
• Part III: Light in the West
• XXX. Constantine and Christianity
• XXXI. The Council of Nicaea
• XXXII. From Nicaea to Chalcedon
• XXXIII. Imperial Decline
• XXXIV. Five Leading Churchmen
• XXXV. The Monastic Life
• XXXVI. Early British Christianity
• XXXVII. Beyond the Roman Wall
• XXXVIII. The Apostle of Ireland
• XXXIX. The Iona Community
• XL. Evangelizing the English
• XLI. England Takes Up the Torch
• Postscript
• F.F. Bruce
• Other Books By F.F. Bruce