The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church. (Books: dying for God's sins).

The Christian Century | January 2, 2002| | Copyright

The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church. By Margaret Visser. North Point Press, 323 pp., $27.00.

MARGARET VISSER'S remarkable book is something to savor and reread. At first glance, it seems simply a guide for serious visitors to the ancient Roman church of St. Agnes Outside the Walls, which has been open to worshipers for 1,350 years. But as Rene Girard observes, her visit "is the experience that all of us tourists dream about and never achieve." Visser expertly uses the knowledge made available by modern methods of historical ...

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