Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. List of Illustrations and Tables ix
3. Contents x
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Time Line xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Contesting Orthodoxy
8. 1. African Churches 29
9. 2. In Dialogue with Heresy: Christian Polemical Literature 55
10. 3. “What They Are to Us, We Are to Them”: Homoian Orthodoxy and Homoousian Heresy 85
11. 4. Ecclesiastical Histories: Reinventing the Arians 109
12. Part II. Orthodoxy and Society
13. 5. Exiles on Main Street: Nicene Bishops and the Vandal Court 143
14. 6. Christianity, Ethnicity, and Society 165
15. 7. Elite Christianity, Political Service, and Social Prestige 195
16. Epilogue: Homoian Christianity in the Post-Imperial West 219
17. Bibliography 251
18. Index 293