Cavan W. Concannon is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of 'When You Were Gentiles': Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence (2014).

• 1. Connecting Dionysios: connectivity and early Christian difference; 2. Placing Dionysios: Corinth in the second century; 3. Defining Dionysios: ecclesial politics and second-century Christianity; 4. Debating Dionysios: sexual politics and second-century Christianity; 5. Conjuring crisis: plague, famine, and grief in Corinth; 6. Responding to Rome: patronage, kinship diplomacy, and Dionysios' letter to the Romans; Conclusion: after Dionysios: collecting, linking, and forgetting early Christian networks; Appendix A: the fragments of Dionysios.

'Deftly employing a variety of investigative strategies and cutting-edge resources, Cavan W. Concannon in this insightful study not only provides the most comprehensive analysis ever written of the enigmatic bishop Dionysios of Corinth but also uses him as a window to illumine the second-century-CE world in all of its manifold cultural and theological complexity.' John T. Fitzgerald, University of Notre Dame, Indiana