lecture 1. The birth of Christianity
lecture 2. The religious world of early Christianity
lecture 3. The historical Jesus
lecture 4. Oral and written traditions about Jesus
lecture 5. The Apostle Paul
lecture 6. The beginning of Jewish-Christian relations
lecture 7. The anti-Jewish use of the Old Testament
lecture 8. The rise of Christian anti-Judaism
lecture 9. The early Christian mission
lecture 10. The Christianization of the Roman Empire
lecture 11. The early persecutions of the State
lecture 12. The causes of Christian persecution
lecture 13. Christian reactions to persecution
lecture 14. The early Christian apologists
lecture 15. The diversity of early Christian communities
lecture 16. Christianities of the second century
lecture 17. The role of pseudepigrapha
lecture 18. The victory of the proto-orthodox
lecture 19. The New Testament canon
lecture 20. The development of church offices
lecture 21. The rise of Christian liturgy
lecture 22. The beginnings of normative theology
lecture 23. The doctrine of the trinity
lecture 24. Christianity and the conquest of empire.
