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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Smith, Paul Aidan, author.
Title: Intimate diversity : an Anglican practical theology of interreligious marriage / Paul Aidan Smith.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Theology and mission in world Christianity, 2452–2953 ; volume 20 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021003294 (print) | LCCN 2021003295 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004460317 (paperback) | ISBN 9789004460324 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Marriage—Religious aspects—Church of England. | Interfaith marriage.
Classification: LCC BX5149.M2 S65 2021 (print) | LCC BX5149.M2 (ebook) | DDC 234/.165—dc23
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