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  • Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Irenaeus' Proof of the Apostolic Preaching and Early Catechetical Instruction; 2. Catechesis and Initiation; 3. Christian and Jewish Baptism according to the Epistle of Barnabas; 4. Baptism according to Origen; 5. The Doctrine of Baptism in Gregory of Nyssa's Oratio Catechetica; 6. Exhortations to Baptism in the Cappadocians; 7. Basil's Protreptic to Baptism; 8. Preaching at Epiphany: Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom on Baptism and the Church; 9. Spiritual Circumcision in Early Christianity.
  • 10. Inscriptions and the Origin of Infant Baptism11. The Disgrace and the Glory: A Jewish Motif in Early Christianity; 12. The Kingdom of God in Early Patristic Literature; 13. Was Barnabas a Chiliast? An Example of Hellenistic Number Symbolism in Barnabas and Clement of Alexandria; 14. Millennial and Amillennial Expectations in Christian Eschatology: Ancient and Medieval Views; 15. Number Symbolism in the Ancient World; 16. Divine Pedagogy: Origen's Use of the Imagery of Education; 17. Early Christian Martyrdom and Civil Disobedience; Bibliography; Back cover.