Part 1: Lecture 1. The birth of Christianity -- lecture 2. The religious world of early Christianity -- lecture 3. The historical Jesus -- lecture 4. Oral and written traditions about Jesus -- lecture 5. The Apostle Paul -- lecture 6. The beginning of Jewish-Christian relations -- lecture 7. The anti-Jewish use of the Old Testament -- lecture 8. The rise of Christian anti-Judaism -- lecture 9. The early Christian mission -- lecture 10. The Christianization of the Roman Empire -- lecture. 11. The early persecutions of the state -- lecture 12. The causes of Christian persecution --

Part 2: Lecture 13. Christian reactions to persecution -- lecture 14. The early Christian apologists -- lecture 15. The diversity of early Christian communities -- lecture 16. Christianities of the second century -- lecture 17. The role of pseudepigrapha -- lecture 18. The victory of the proto-orthodox -- lecture 19. The New Testament canon -- lecture 20. The development of church offices -- lecture 21. The rise of Christian liturgy -- lecture 22. The beginnings of normative theology -- lecture. 23. The doctrine of the Trinity -- lecture 24. Christianity and the conquest of empire.