Garry Wills Font of life

Ambrose, Augustine, and the mystery of baptism

[Flaptekst] No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The Confessions and The City of God. Different in background, they were also extraordinarily different in personality. In Font of Life, Garry Wills explores the remarkable moment when their lives intersected at one of the most important, yet rarely visited, sites in the Christian world. Hidden under the piazza of the Duomo...

Engels | 194 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2012

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