Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Preface viii
4. I Problems of Approach 1
5. II What Pagans Believed 10
6. III Christianity as Presented 17
7. IV Points of Contact, Modes of Persuasion, before 312 25
8. V Constantine as a Friend of the Church 43
9. VI Nonreligious Factors in Conversion 52
10. VII Evangelical Campaigns and Publicity, after 312 59
11. VIII Conversion of Intellectuals 68
12. IX How Complete Was Conversion? 74
13. X Conversion by Coercion 86
14. XI Summary 102
15. Abbreviations 121
16. Notes 123
17. Bibliography of Works Cited in the Notes 167
18. Index 181