Chapter I: Front Matter

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ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY.

VOL. II.

THE APOSTLES.

NEW WORKS,

BY ERNEST RENAN.

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I.--THE LIFE OF JESUS.

II.--THE APOSTLES.

III.--SAINT PAUL. (_In press._)

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THE
APOSTLES.

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AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF JESUS," ETC., ETC.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE

_INTRODUCTION.--Critical Examination of Original
Documents_ 7

_CHAPTER I.--Formation of Beliefs relative to the
Resurrection of Jesus.--The Apparitions at
Jerusalem_ 54

_CHAPTER II.--Departure of the Disciples from
Jerusalem.--Second Galilean life of Jesus_ 71

_CHAPTER III.--Return of the Apostles to Jerusalem.--End
of the period of Apparitions_ 83

_CHAPTER IV.--Descent of the Holy Spirit; Ecstatical and
Prophetic Phenomena_ 91

_CHAPTER V.--First Church at Jerusalem; its Character
Cenobitical_ 104

_CHAPTER VI.--The Conversion of the Hellenistic Jews and
Proselytes_ 122

_CHAPTER VII.--The Church considered as an Association
of poor People.--Institution of the
Diaconate.--Deaconesses and Widows_ 130

_CHAPTER VIII.--First Persecution.--Death of
Stephen.--Destruction of the first Church of
Jerusalem_ 144

_CHAPTER IX.--First Missions.--Philip the Deacon_ 154

_CHAPTER X.--Conversion of St. Paul_ 162

_CHAPTER XI.--Peace and Interior Developments of the
Church of Judea_ 179

_CHAPTER XII.--Establishment of the Church of Antioch_ 196

_CHAPTER XIII.--The idea of an Apostolate to the
Gentiles.--Saint Barnabas_ 206

_CHAPTER XIV.--Persecution of Herod Agrippa I._ 214

_CHAPTER XV.--Movements Parallel to, and Imitative of
Christianity.--Simon of Gitto_ 226

_CHAPTER XVI.--General progress of the Christian
Missions_ 236

_CHAPTER XVII.--State of the World in the First Century_ 252

_CHAPTER XVIII.--Religious Legislation of the period_ 278

_CHAPTER XIX.--The Future of Missions_ 290

_NOTES_ 305

THE APOSTLES.