Bradley K. Storin is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's Epistolary Autobiography (2019) and Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection: The Complete Translation (2019), as well as other scholarly edited volumes, articles, and translations.

• Part I. Entering the Community: 1. Gregory of Nazianzus, oration 18.5–17, 'funeral oration for his father'; 2. Augustine of Hippo, confessions 8; 3. Augustine of Hippo, sermon 279, 'on Paul the Apostle', for the Solemnity of his conversion; 4. Patrick of Ireland, confession; Part II. Forming and Overseeing the Community: 5. Didache; 6. Canons of the councils of Elvira and Arles; 7. Gregory of Nazianzus, poem 2.1.12.25–47, 136–810, 'on himself and concerning the Bishops'; 8. Gregory of Nazianzus, oration 43.1, 37–38, 43–53, 60–70, 77–80, 'funeral oration for Basil the great, Bishop of Cappadocian Caesarea'; 9. Ambrose of Milan, letter 77 to his sister; 10. Ambrose of Milan, letter outside the collection 1 to his sister; 11. Selections from book 16 of the Theodosian code; 12. Hilary of Arles, sermon on the life of saint Honoratus; 13. The Monastic rules of Lérins and the counsels of Porcarius; 14. Faustus of Riez, homily on saint Maximus, Bishop and Abbot; 15. Shenoute of Atripe, I see your eagerness (discourses 5, work 1) and some kinds of people sift dirt and whoever seeks god will find (discourses 5, works 2 and 3); Part III. Imagining the Community: 16. Tertullian of Carthage, on repentance and on modesty 1–4, 21–22; 17. Cyprian of Carthage, on the oneness of the Catholic church (second edition); 18. Augustine of Hippo, letter 87 to emeritus of Caesarea; 19. Augustine of hippo, sermons 227–229; 20. Pseudo-Dionysius, on the ecclesiastical hierarchy 1, 5–7; Part IV. Policing the Community; 21. Commodian, instructions; 22. Tertullian of Carthage, on the shows; 23. Maximus of Turin, sermons 105–108; 24. John Chrysostom, first oration against the Jews; 25. Callinicus, the life of our sacred father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae Prol; 26. Socrates Scholasticus, ecclesiastical history; 27. Caesarius of Arles, sermons 53 and 54; Suggestions for further reading; Scriptural index.