Christianity and the Christian Church of the First Three Centuries

Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860) was Professor of Theology at the University of Tubingen. The Editor's Foreword introduces the work, and the translators have added critical footnotes.

• Editor's Foreword | xiPreface to the First Edition | xxiiiPreface to the Second Edition | xxviiPart 1: The Entrance of Christianity into World History;Primitive ChristianityPart 2: Christianity as a Universal Principle of Salvation:The Antithesis of Paulinism and Judaism, and Its Equilibrium in the Idea of the Catholic ChurchPart 3: Christianity As Ideal World-Principle and as Real, Historically Conditioned Phenomenon, or Gnosis and Montanism, and the Catholic Church as the Antithesis to Each of ThemPart 4: Christianity as the Highest Principle of Revelation, and as DogmaPart 5: Christianity as a Power Dominant in the World, in Its Relation to the Pagan World and to the Roman StatePart 6: Christianity as a Moral and Religious Principle, in Its Universality and Its Limitations at This TimeIndex of Persons | 433Index of Subjects | 439

No historical theologian has contributed more than Baur to a rational understanding of Christian origins and history . . . Professor Hodgson is his outstanding English-language interpreter. His introduction and, with Robert Brown, lucid translation of this most important synthesis invites fresh assessments of modern New Testament scholarship by revisiting the origins of that discipline's dominant paradigm.