| List of Maps and Illustrations | p. 6 |
| Preface | p. 7 |
| In the Beginning | p. 11 |
| The World of Jesus's First Followers | p. 19 |
| Spreading the News | p. 51 |
| Paul: Missionary, Teacher, Martyr | p. 77 |
| Being Christian | p. 101 |
| Israel Old and New | p. 131 |
| A Catholic Church? | p. 153 |
| External Pressures: Suffering for and Defending the Faith | p. 189 |
| Christian Thought in the West | p. 225 |
| Alexandrian Christianity and Its Legacy | p. 249 |
| Worship and Practice | p. 271 |
| Ministry and Morals | p. 297 |
| Faith and Politics | p. 317 |
| Looking Forward, Looking Back | p. 343 |
| Time Line of Early Christianity | p. 351 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 355 |
| Notes | p. 377 |
| Index | p. 389 |
| Maps | |
| The Roman Empire around the middle of the first century A.D. | p. 20 |
| Palestine in the time of Jesus | p. 37 |
| The travels of Paul | p. 79 |
| Illustrations | |
| Image of the apostle Paul | p. 58 |
| Sarcophagus of the Two Testaments from St. Paul's Basilica in Rome, showing scenes from the life of the apostle Peter | p. 62 |
| Modern-day Jerusalem | p. 65 |
| Some remains of ancient Antioch | p. 66 |
| A street in ancient Ephesus | p. 85 |
| Roman coin (A.D. 67) showing the emperor Nero | p. 192 |
| The Colosseum, Rome | p. 204 |
| Amphitheater at Lyons, scene of Christian executions in A.D. 177 | p. 208 |
| Part of ancient Carthage | p. 211 |
| Scene from a Roman catacomb | p. 236 |
| Baptistery from Christian house at Dura-Europos, Syria | p. 288 |
| Depiction of Christ as the Good Shepherd | p. 294 |
| Scene from the third-century "Jonah sarcophagus," in the Museo Pio Cristiano, Vatican | p. 295 |
| Roman coin (c. A.D. 290) showing the emperor Diocletian | p. 335 |
| The Milvian Bridge, near Rome, scene of Constantine's victory over Maxentius in A.D. 312 | p. 340 |
| Example of Chi-Rho symbol | p. 343 |
| Part of statue of Constantine, in Rome | p. 344 |
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