Christianity in Roman Africa <subTitle>The Development of its Practices and Beliefs</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Burns, J. Patout</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">9:4</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.</publisher> <dateIssued>2014</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>670tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover, color illustrations, color maps</extent> <extent>27cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>One of the many pleasures of this rich and rewarding volume is that it gives the reader a textured portrait of what life was like in Christian communities in the early centuries. Do you want to know how the eucharist was celebrated? Or what rituals were associated with baptism? Or how Christians were buried? Or what a church looked like from the inside? You will find answers here, all documented with literary texts and archeological data and illustrated with stunning pictures.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">J. Patout Burns, Robin Margaret Jensen</note> <subject> <topic>Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Christianity -- Africa</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">276.101</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B967-P31</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802869319</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13071/ch.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13071/ch.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071217.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>