T&T Clark Handbook of the Early Church

Part 1: Emerging Christian identity 1st century CE

• Jewish-Christian relations: A painful split - Markus Vinzent (King's College London, UK)
• Graeco-Roman culture and Christians: Good neighbours?- Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski (King's College London, UK)
• What was the role of women in the churches? - Ilaria Ramelli (Catholic University, Angelicum, Princeton, USA)
• To what extent were children and slaves welcomed in the early church? - Ville Vuolanto (University of Tampere, Finland)
• Disability in the early church - Monica Tobon, (Franciscan Study Centre, UK)
• Eschatology in the early Christian thought-world - John A. McGuckin (Union Theological Seminary, USA)

Part 2: Diversity and unity in the second century

• Christianity and Christianities - Mark Edwards (Oxford University, UK)
• The church's unity around the bishop: Ignatius of Antioch and Irenaeus of Lyons - Allen Brent (King's College London, UK)
• Unity around a teacher: Clement and Origen - Ilaria L. E. Ramelli (Catholic University, Italy)
• Diversity around a prophet: The case of Montanism - William Tabbernee (Theological Seminar in Tulsa, USA)
• Unity around a martyr: Perpetua and Felicity - Sarah Parkhouse (University of Durham, UK)

Part 3: Worship and faith

• Community and liturgy: Emerging of the Trinitarian formula baptism - Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski (King's College London, UK)
• The community's commemoration of Jesus in the Eucharist - John A. McGuckin (Union Theological Seminary, USA)
• Prayer and poetry in the early Christian community - Paul Bradshaw
• The Christian community and its structure: Deacons, priests and bishops - Paul van Geest (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) and Bart J. Koet
• Dismissal from the clerical state and its consequences in the early church - Henryk Pietras (Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Italy)
• Graeco-Roman and Christian art in late antiquity - Jas Elsner (University of Oxford, UK)
• The community's hope: Soteriology in the early church - Robert Daly SJ (Boston College USA)

Part 4: Under Christian emperors

• From the community of martyrs to the church of the empire - Giulio Maspero (University of the Holy Cross, Italy)
• Doctrine: Why were Christians obsessed with dogmas? - Ilaria L. E. Ramelli (Catholic University, Italy)
• Councils: The path towards an agreement in faith - Henryk Pietras (Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Italy)
• 'Light from light': The metaphysics of light of the early church - Isidoros Charalambos Katsos (Cambridge University, UK)
• The oigins of monasticism - Tim Vivian (California State University, USA)
• Persecution of heretics - Marcin Wysocki (KUL, Poland)
• The Western church and its thought-world (major Latin Fathers) - John A. McGuckin (Union Theological Seminary, USA)
• The Eastern church and its thought-world (major Greek Fathers) -John A. McGuckin (Union Theological Seminary, USA)
• The Coptic church: Faithful to its roots - Mark Sheridan (Collegio San Anselmo Rome, Italy)
• The Syriac Orthodox Church - Saliba Er Akhsenoyo (Salzburg University, Germany)

Part 5: The early church and systematic theology

• Does Jerusalem still need Athens? - George Geréby (Central European University, Hungary)
• Is the Canon of the Scriptures closed? Recent interest in the Nag Hammadi Codices - Paula Tutty (Oslo University, Norway)
• The early church's developing theology of (new) creation - Paul Blowers (Milligan University, USA)
• uffering of Christ: Suffering of people - Stefano Salemi (King's College London, UK)
• The Church: One, holy, catholic, apostolic - Nicolas Sagovsky (King's College London, UK)