The nature and work of Christ : his contemporaries, his choice of followers, correspondence with Agbar -- Tiberius to Nero : the work of the apostles from the choice of Matthias to the deaths of Paul and Peter -- Vespasian to Trajan : the distribution and writings of the apostles and their successors, enemies within the church, persecutions -- Trajan to Marcus Aurelius : the succession of bishops, their writings and martyrdoms -- Marcus Aurelius to Severus : : the succession of bishops, their refutation of Marcion and Montanus, their settlement of the the date of the easter festival -- Severus to Decius : the work of Origen and his contemporaries, widespread persecution -- Gallus to Gallienus : the work of Cyprian and Dionysius, the heresies of Sabellius, Novatus, Paul, and the Manichees -- Diocletian to Maximian : persecutions, the imperial recantation -- Maximian's renewed attack on the church : the end of persecution -- Peace and recovery of the church : the victory of Constantine.
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