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REVIEWS Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, Jahrgang 4, 1961. Münster i.W., Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1962. Pp. 198; 12 p1. Pr. DM 28. � /25. � (for subscribers DM 24.25/21.25). The fourth volume of the Jahrbuchfiir Antike und Christentum contains, once again, a variety of attractive and interesting articles. It opens with the sequel of Professor F. J. Dolger's Beitrdge zur Geschichte des Kreuz- zeichens (p. 5/17). He first studies a custom, mentioned by St. Augustine in a sermon (In Joh. fr. 11,1; PL 35,1474), which is the crossing of the forehead simultaneous with the speaking of the word credo. He establishes that the origin of this use is to be found in a custom in early-Christian catechesis, about which we are more closely instructed by some expla- nations of the Symbol and by a few sermons of Petrus Chrysologus: there the words signate vos are not only an exhortation to make the sign of the cross, but also to say the creed. The author concludes: "die Katechumenen (haben) aus dem kirchlichen Unterricht heraus die Zusammengehorigkeit von Kreuzzeichen und Credo so lebendig in ihr Bewusstsein aufgenom- men, dass sie bei die Frage : "Glaubst du?" oder "Bist du ein Christ"
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1967
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