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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Handbook of Early Christianity : social science approaches by 
The Church of the Ancient Councils : the disciplinary work of the first four ecumenical councils by 
The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431-451 by 
Worship in the early church : An Anthology of Historical Sources by 
Worshiping with the Church Fathers by 
Early Christian Ritual Life by 
Sacred Ritual, Profane Space : the Roman house as early Christian meeting place by 
The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity : Texts and Analysis by 
The Question of Canon : challenging the status quo in the New Testament debate by 
Formation of the Bible : the story of the church's canon by 
Faith in Formulae : a collection of early Christian creeds and creed-related texts by The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431-451 by 
Confessing the One Faith : an ecumenical explication of the apostolic faith as it is confessed in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed (381) by 
The Making of the Creeds by 
A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs by 
A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography by 
Dictionary of Early Christian Literature by A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography : and literature to the end of the sixth century A.D. : with an account of the principal sects and heresies by 
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity by 
Contextualising Early Christian Martyrdom by 
Divine Deliverance : pain and painlessness in early Christian martyr texts by 
Martyrdom and Memory : early Christian culture making by 
The Myth of Persecution : how early Christians invented a Story of Martyrdom by 
In Procession Before the World : martyrdom as public liturgy in early Christianity by 
From Apostles to Bishops : the development of the episcopacy in the early church by 
The Bishop As Disciplinarian in the Letters of St. Augustine by 
Constantine and the Bishops : the politics of intolerance by 
The Didache : faith, hope, & life of the earliest Christian communities, 50-70 C.E. by 
The Didache: A Commentary by 
The Didache : a missing piece of the puzzle in early Christianity by 
The Didache in Modern Research by 
Rethinking the Origins of the Eucharist by 
Subversive Meals : an analysis of the Lord's Supper under Roman domination during the first century by 
Inventing Authority : the use of the Church Fathers in Reformation debates over the Eucharist by 
Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom : the Didache's meal ritual and its place in early Christianity by 
Christian Women in the Patristic World : their influence, authority, and legacy in the second through fifth centuries by 
Women in Early Christianity : translations from Greek texts by 
Handmaids of the Lord : contemporary descriptions of feminine asceticism in the first six Christian centuries by 
The Forgotten Desert Mothers : sayings, lives, and stories of early Christian women by 
Ordained Women in the Early Church : a documentary history by 
Crispina and Her Sisters : Women and Authority in Early Christianity by 
A Modest Apostle : Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church by 
Constantine and Christendom : The oration to the saints ; The Greek and Latin accounts of the discovery of the cross ; The edict of Constantine to Pope Silvester by 
Life of Constantine by Histories
Constantine Religious Faith and Imperial Policy by 
Constantine and the Council of Nicaea, 325 C.E. : defining orthodoxy and heresy in Christianity by Constantine and the Bishops by 
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine by 
