Early Christianity

Rahner, K. 158
relics 43, 45–6
Renaissance 49–52
Revelation69, 162–3, 192, 202
Rome 43, 118–19, 128–9, 135, 206;
church of 47, 149, 152, 153–4,
166, 208–9; tituli90–1
Roman Catholic church 18, 29,
52–4, 55–6, 60–1, 150
Roman empire 14, 146–7, 191–2;
Christian attitudes to 196–206
Rudolph, K. 171, 175–6
Rufinus 42

Sabellius, Sabellianism 162
sacrifice: pagan 149, 189, 194–5,
199, 201, 216; see also
persecution
saints: cult of 43, 53–4
salvation 158, 161–2
schism 149, 154, 207
science: opposed to religion 22–4,
59
secularization 18, 21–2, 24–7,
62–3
Seneca 131
Septuagint 84, 140, 151
Serapion, bp of Antioch 183
Serdica: council of 155
Sextus Julius Africanus 78
Sherwin-White, A. N. 65–6, 223
Simon bar Kochba/bar Kosiba,
Jewish rebel leader 103, 108
Simon Magus 166
social-scientific interpretation 95–6
Socrates, historian 41, 182
so ̄ter136–40;see alsoemperor
worship
Sozomen, historian 41, 124, 182

Spain 110–11, 113, 114, 119

Stark, R. 111–12

Suetonius 86–7, 113, 198, 215

superstition: Christianity regarded

as 198, 215, 217

Tabitha, associate of Paul 151

Tacitus 86–7, 113, 198

Tatian 164

Tertullian 78, 79, 110, 115, 164,

195–7, 203, 206, 218

Theodoret, historian 41

Theodosius II, emp. 89

Theos Hypsistos 123–4; see also

‘god-fearers’

Theudas, Jewish bandit leader

102–3

Third World 24–5

Thomas, disciple 179

tigers: facing Christians 188; Celtic

18;see alsolions

torture 190, 217

trade and trade networks: relevance

to Christian expansion 118–19

Trajan, emp. 113, 189, 211, 218–19;

letter on the Christians 213–14,

217–18

Trinity, doctrine of 143–4, 164,

182

Ughelli, F. 54

Ulfilas, Gothic bp 120

Ulpian, lawyer 223–4

unity: ideal of in early Christianity

146–9, 156

Valentinus, Valentinians 161, 164,

171

Valerian, emp. 193

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