From Nicaea to Chalcedon: a guide to the literature and its background

1. The birth of church history and its sequel

Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius' successors

2. Athanasius and the shaping of Nicene theology

Arius

Athanasius : the legend and the critique

The fundamentals of Athanasiusʹ theology : 'contra gentes-de incarnatione'

Marcellus : ally or embarrassment?

Orations against the Arians

Self-justification, retrospective history and shifting theological alliances

Other works

3. Heroes of the faith : the literature of the desert

Athanasius and the 'Life of Antony'

The histories : the 'Lausiac History' and the 'Historia Monachorum'

The 'Apophthegmata Patrum'

Didymus the Blind

Evagrius Ponticus

The "Macarian" homilies

Theodoret's 'Historia Religiosa'

4. The Cappadocians

Biographical

Withdrawal and involvement

Christianity and contemporary culture

Basil and the ascetic movement

The dogmatic debates

Gregory the Theologian

Gregory of Nyssa and Neoplatonic mysticism

Preachers and teachers of the church

5. The Temper of the times : some contrasting characters of the late fourth century

Ephrem the Syrian

Cyril of Jerusalem

Epiphanius of Salamis

John Chrysostom

Nemesius of Emesa

Synesius of Cyrene

6. The literature of Christological controversy

Introduction : Eustathius

Apollinarius and Diodore

Theodore of Mopsuestia

Polemical correspondence and a pamphlet war

Nestorius

Cyril of Alexandria

Theodoret of Cyrus.