Introduction; Part 1 The Sources of Origin; Chapter 1 The First Latin Versions of the Bible; Chapter 2 The First Christian Writers in the Latin Tongue; Part 2 The IIIrd Century; Chapter 3 The Octavius of Minucius Felix; Chapter 4 Saint Cyprian and his Times; Chapter 5 Novatian—Commodian; Chapter 6 The Eve of the Peace of the Church; Part 3 The Golden Age of Latin Christian Literature; Chapter 7 The Morrow of the Victory; Chapter 8 St Ambrose, Bishop and Diplomat; Chapter 9 Theologians of the Second Order; Chapter 10 Christian Poetry in the IVth Century; Chapter 11 St Jerome and his Times; Part 4 The Break up of the Empire; Chapter 12 Saint Augustine and Augustinianism; Chapter 13 The Church and the Barbarians—Orosius—Salvianus—Leo the Great—Victor of Vita; Chapter 14 Christian Latin Poetry in the Vth Century; Part 5 On the Threshold of the Middle Ages; Chapter 15 Works in Verse; Chapter 16 Works in Prose;