Unity and Diversity in the Church of the Fourth Century / Andrew Louth -- Augustine's Idea of God / James J O'Donnell -- "Good for Nothing"? Augustine on Creation / Rowan D. Williams -- The Cross as Ransom / Eugene TeSelle -- The Seed of Fire : Divine Suffering in the Christology of Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius of Constantinople / Joseph M. Hallman -- Half a Century of Gnosisforschung -- in Retrospect / R. McL. Wilson -- Prolegomena to the Study of Ancient Gnosticism / Bentley Layton -- Arius in Modern Research / Christopher Stead -- Jerome's Polemic Against Priscillian in his Letter to Ctesiphon (133, 4) / Alberto Ferreiro -- Dilatory Donatists or Procrastinating Catholics : The Trial at the Conference of Carthage / Maureen A. Tilley -- The Atmosphere of Election : Augustinianism as Common Sense / J. Patout Burns -- Pelagianism and Augustine / Gerald Bonner -- Augustine and Pelagianism / Gerald Bonner -- The Transmission of Sin in the Seed : A Debate Between Augustine of Hippo and Julian of Eclanum / Carol Scheppard -- The Life of Abercius : Its Significance for Early Syriac Christianity / David Bundy -- Eusebius and Syriac Christianity / Sebastian Brock -- The Christology of the Church of the East in the Synods of the Fifth to Early Seventh Centuries : Preliminary Considerations and Materials / Sebastian Brock -- Images of Ephraem : The Syrian Holy Man and His Church / Sidney H. Grzffith -- Asceticism in the Church of Syria : TheHermeneutics of Early Syrian Monasticism / Sidney H. Griffith.