Lecture One

Introduction to the Apostolic Fathers

Lecture Two

The Letter of 1 Clement

Lecture Three

Church Structures in Early Christianity

Lecture Four

The Letters of Ignatius

Lecture Five

Doctrinal Problems in the Early Church

Lecture Six

Still Other Doctrinal Disputes

Lecture Seven

The Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians

Lecture Eight

The Use of Authorities in the Early Church

Lecture Nine

The First Martyrology—Polycarp

Lecture Ten

The Persecution of the Christians

Lecture Eleven

A Church Manual— The Didache of the Apostles

Lecture Twelve

Ritual in the Early Church

Lecture Thirteen

Barnabas and the Opposition to the Jews * * * * *

Lecture Fourteen

The Rise of Christian Anti-Semitism * * * * *

Lecture Fifteen

2 Clement—An Early Sermon

Lecture Sixteen

The Use of Scripture in the Early Church

Lecture Seventeen

Papias—An Early Christian Interpreter

Lecture Eighteen

Oral Tradition in Early Christianity

Lecture Nineteen

The Shepherd of Hennas—An Apocalypse

Lecture Twenty

Apocalypses in Early Christianity

Lecture Twenty-One

The Letter to Diognetus—An Apology

Lecture Twenty-Two

Apologetics in Early Christianity

Lecture Twenty-Three

The Apostolic Fathers as a Collection

Lecture Twenty-Four

The Apostolic Fathers and Proto-orthodoxy