Early Christianity

Mani, Manichaeism 122, 163,
175–6, 196, 198–9
Marcion 119, 162
Marcus Aurelius, emp. 192
martyrs, martyrdom 42–3, 45,
107–8, 149, 188–9, 192–3,
201–2;see also acta; persecution;
saints
Marucchi, O. 60
Mary Magdalene 151, 172
Maurists 54, 56
Maxentius, emp. 190
Maximinus Daia, emp. 120, 190
Maximinus Thrax, emp. 190
Mediterranean: cultural context of
14–17, 146–7, 159
Melito of Sardis 78, 106, 156
messiah: Jesus as 73; Jewish
expectations of 103–5; see also
Jesus
Middleton, C. 57
Milan 46–7; see alsoAmbrose, bp
of Milan
Minucius Felix 206
miracles 120–1, 136
mission: Christian 108–20; see also
conversion
missionaries 115–20; see also
Paul
Mitchell, S. 133–6, 225
Monad 172
monasticism 200; see also
Pachomius
monotheism 32, 197–8
Montanus, Montanism 154, 163,
164, 182
Monty Python’s Life of Brian(film)
97
mos maiorum 198

Nag Hammadi library 62, 92,

167–85; texts from: Apocalypse

of Peter174–5;Apocryphon of

James169;Apocryphon of John

169, 171–2, 173; Dialogue of the

Saviour168;Eugnostos the

Blessed172;Gospel of the

Egyptians168;Gospel of Philip

172, 174 Gospel of Thomas169,

179, 183; Gospel of Truth169,

171;Hypostasis of the Archons

173;On the Origins of the World

173;Testimony of Truth173;

Tripartite Tractate172;see also

Akhmim;Da Vinci Code;gno ̄ sis;

Gnostics, Gnosticism; Irenaeus of

Lyons; Valentinus, Valentinians

nationalism: religion and 25

natural disasters 195–6

Nero, emp. 86, 113, 189–90, 198,

210

Nerva, emp. 219

‘New Prophecy’: seeMontanus,

Montanism

New Testament 65–74, 118;

formation 67–8, 70–1, 166; see

alsogospels; letters; Paul;

Revelation

Nicaea: council of 40, 143–6, 156,

162, 182, 207

Nicomedia 222–3

nomen, charge of: levelled at

Christians 215

Novatians 181–2

Oakes, P. 140

Origen 47, 79–80, 88, 115, 159,

164, 204

Orosius, historian 44–5

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