Bryan D. Spinks
Ashgate
Paperback
204
2006
In this first of two volumes 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 Cyril of Jerusalem Theodore and Ambrose the post-nicene rites and commentaries and the impact of medieval theologies of baptism and Augustinian theology with reference to Western understanding.
Ashgate
Paperback
204
2006
In this first of two volumes 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 Cyril of Jerusalem Theodore and Ambrose the post-nicene rites and commentaries and the impact of medieval theologies of baptism and Augustinian theology with reference to Western understanding.