Part II

CHRISTIANITY FROM THE SECOND CENTURY TO THE RISE OF ISLAM

Chap. I--Developments in the Unestablished Church

§ 1. Numbers and Inner Life 81 § 2. Growth of the Priesthood 87 § 3. The Gnostic Movement in the Second Century 91 § 4. Marcionism and Montanism 97 § 5. Rites and Ceremonies 101 § 6. Strifes over Primary Dogma 102

Chap. II--Relations of Church and State

§ 1. Persecutions 106 § 2. Establishment and Creed-Making 114 § 3. Reaction under Julian 127 § 4. Re-establishment: Disestablishment of Paganism 133

Chap. III--Failure with Survival

§ 1. The Overthrow of Arianism 142 § 2. The Cost of Orthodoxy 146 § 3. Moral and Intellectual Stagnation 153 § 4. The Social Failure 159