Description: The first, full-length study in English of this amazing theologian, saint, & author. It shows Alphonsus shaping a theology out of his experience in the classroom, the opera house, & the law courts - a theology that still survives today in over 20,000 editions of his works. Hamish Swanston, born in 1933 & ordained in 1960, has taught at universities in Europe, the United States, & Latin America. On his election at Canterbury in 1977, he became the first Roman Catholic to head a Department of Theology at a British university since the Reformation. Besides writing a number of works exploring the character of the Church & Creeds, he regularly lectures in Europe & across the United States in 17th & 18th century opera. Currently, he is producing a study of the life & work of the distinguished Celeste Crostaros to be published in 1996.

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