Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From the New Testament to the Council of Trent

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 190 pages
Bryan Spinks summarizes the understandings of baptism in the New Testament and the development of baptismal reflection and liturgical rites throughout Syrian, Egyptian, Roman and African regions. He focuses particularly on the Homilies of Chrysostom, Cyri
 

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The New Testament Foundations 34 14
34
From John the Deacon to AngloSaxon England
109
The Later Medieval Rites Technical Theologies
134
In the Floods of Great Waters
157
Index
187
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Bryan D. Spinks is Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, USA

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