David E. Wilhite is Professor of Historical Theology at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He is author and editor of several books including Tertullian the African (De Gruyter 2007), The Gospel According to Heretics (Baker 2014), Ancient African Christianity (Routledge, 2017), and Israel's LORD (with Adam Winn; Fortress Academic 2024), and edited several volumes, including The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (with Bruce Longenecker; CUP 2023).

• Part I. Voices from the Earliest Sources: 1. The Apostolic Fathers Clare K. Rothschild; 2. The Apologists Anders-Christian Jacobsen; 3. Irenaeus: the first systematic theologian Stephen Presley; 4. The theologies of gnostic Texts and Nag Hammadi Geoffrey S. Smith; 5. Early Christian Africa Kate Cooper; 6. Early Alexandrian theologians: Pantaenus, Clement, and Origen John Behr; 7. The school of Rome: the early Roman theologians James L. Papandrea; Part II. Voices from the Consensus; 8. Athanasius of Alexandria David M. Gwynn; 9. Fourth-century Latin theologians: Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, and Ambrose of Milan Young Richard Kim; 10. The Cappadocians: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus Morwenna Ludlow; 11. John Chrysostom Wendy Mayer; 12. Jerome and the exegesis of Paul's Epistles: The Proliferation of Biblical commentaries Andrew Cain; 13. Augustine of Hippo Han-luen Kantzer Komline; 14. Fifth-century theologians: Theodore of Mopsuestia, Nestorius of Constantinople, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret of Cyrus, and Leo of Rome Michael C. Magree, S. J.; Part III. Voices from the Various Genres; 15. Martyrdoms and hagiography Ruth Sutcliffe; 16. Hymnody and poetry Roald Dijkstra; 17. Eusebius and the Ecclesiastical historians Jeremy M. Schott; 18. Christianity at the end of late Antiquity: Chalcedonian, Miaphysite, and the Church of the East Vince L. Bantu.

'In this collection we are brought into the presence of early Christian theologians to listen to what they have to say – not as words about God building up a history of doctrine, but instead as distinctive voices, sounding in their different contexts. An interdisciplinary line-up of scholars demonstrate how these voices were united in a harmonious polyphony of characteristic concerns, shaped by the desire to communicate, defend and above all, inculcate the practice of Christian faith in forms of life and devotion. The overall effect is as inspiring as a piece of Renaissance polyphony.' Carol Harrison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University