... grace to the tribes and popular folks in nature through rain, good weather and even victory in war, the cult of saints and the cult of kings now replace them to suggest their ascendancy as the ... Here, the pagan Augustine is shown imagining God as a great being with dimensions extending everywhere, through infinite space, permeating the whole mass of the world and reaching in all directions ... “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19), the thrust of Christianity (with Christendom being the...