Volume II (containing Books III & IV) of a two-volume history of the early Catholic Church.Book III• The Gnostic Crisis and Montanism• The Catholic Reaction• The Roman Controversies at the End of the Second and Beginning of the Third Centuries• The Church and the Roman State from Septimius Severus to Decius (193-249)• The Expansion of Christianity from the End of the Second to the Beginning of the Fourth Century• The Great Persecutions in the Middle of the Third Century, and the Period of Religious Peace from 260 to 302• Christian Writers of Africa• The Pagan Opposition• The Christian School at Alexandria Before OrigenBook IV• Origen• Apocryphal Writings and Manichaeism• The Church of Alexandria After Origen• The Church of Antioch at the End of the Third Century• Religious Tendencies in the Third Century, and Their Action Upon the Church• Christian Literature Under Diocletian• Ecclesiastical Organisation• The Roman See• Ecclesiastical Property, and the Juridical Situation of the Church in the Roman Empire During the Third Century• Christian Life in the Third Century• The Last of the Persecutions• The Extent of the Christian Conquest on the Eve of the Peace of Constantine