Arator on the Acts of the Apostles a baptismal commentary

This is a wide-ranging study of baptismal symbolism in the early Church taking as its starting point Arator's 'Historia Apostolica', a commentary in verse on the Acts of the Apostles, written in Rome in AD 544. Baptism is a major theme is Arator's poem and his ideas are here trac...

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Main Author: Hillier, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1993, 1993
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This is a wide-ranging study of baptismal symbolism in the early Church taking as its starting point Arator's 'Historia Apostolica', a commentary in verse on the Acts of the Apostles, written in Rome in AD 544. Baptism is a major theme is Arator's poem and his ideas are here traced back to their origins
Physical Description:xi, 222 p.
ISBN:9780191672330
0191672335