Preface -- Why should Asian theologians read texts of the early teachers of faith? -- Permeating all things with divinity : understandings of Jesus in the second century -- Martyrs and heretics : women in early Christian traditions -- Poverty and prosperity : learning from the early church -- The wounded body in early Christian thought : implications for the care of HIV/AIDS survivors -- The joy of almsgiving : reading Cyprian today -- Listening to the speaking Bible : interpreting the use of the Bible in a letter of Cyprian -- Interrogating forgiveness : what the early church can teach us -- Facing envy : on being accompanied by the past in hoping to move forward -- Enduring to the end : persecution, martyrdom and identity -- Continually reaching back in order to move forward.