These essays, as well as many others in the volume, provide the reader with a helpful orientation to the figure or issue under consideration, and all of the essays evidence a fairness and balance in presentation; where an issue is unsettled or controverted, the author signals such to the reader and indicates where she should turn to pursue the question.

• PART ONE: PROLEGOMENA; PART TWO: EVIDENCE: MATERIAL AND TEXTUAL; PART THREE: IDENTITIES; PART FOUR: REGIONS; PART FIVE: STRUCTURES AND AUTHORITIES; PART SIX: EXPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE; PART SEVEN: RITUAL, PIETY, AND PRACTICE; PART EIGHT: THEOLOGICAL THEMES

These essays, as well as many others in the volume, provide the reader with a helpful orientation to the figure or issue under consideration, and all of the essays evidence a fairness and balance in presentation; where an issue is unsettled or controverted, the author signals such to the reader and indicates where she should turn to pursue the question.

• PART ONE: PROLEGOMENA; PART TWO: EVIDENCE: MATERIAL AND TEXTUAL; PART THREE: IDENTITIES; PART FOUR: REGIONS; PART FIVE: STRUCTURES AND AUTHORITIES; PART SIX: EXPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE; PART SEVEN: RITUAL, PIETY, AND PRACTICE; PART EIGHT: THEOLOGICAL THEMES

These essays, as well as many others in the volume, provide the reader with a helpful orientation to the figure or issue under consideration, and all of the essays evidence a fairness and balance in presentation; where an issue is unsettled or controverted, the author signals such to the reader and indicates where she should turn to pursue the question.

• PART ONE: PROLEGOMENA; PART TWO: EVIDENCE: MATERIAL AND TEXTUAL; PART THREE: IDENTITIES; PART FOUR: REGIONS; PART FIVE: STRUCTURES AND AUTHORITIES; PART SIX: EXPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE; PART SEVEN: RITUAL, PIETY, AND PRACTICE; PART EIGHT: THEOLOGICAL THEMES