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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

The Importance of Catechesis in Environmental Education

open access: yesPaedagogia Christiana, 2011
Nowadays ecological problems are frequently addressed and in variouscontexts, also with reference to education in a broader sense. The Church participatesin the education, especially through catechesis. This reflection presents the strongestarguments for
Stanisław Dziekoński
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Remote Teaching of Religious Education in Polish Schools as a Form of Evangelization and Catechesis during the Epidemic Threat

open access: yesThe Person and the Challenges, 2020
This article discusses the current situation of the Church resulting from the epidemic threat of the coronavirus. It indicates how we can teach religious education online, using particular platforms and educational websites, as well as instant ...
Renata Chrzanowska
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Private Creeds and their Troubled Authors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article defends the disputed label “private creeds” as a useful one for describing a number of fourth century texts. Offering such a confession was the normal method for clearing one’s name on charges of heterodoxy in fourth-century Greek ...
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

Architect of the Image: Argumentation, Economy and Translation in Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 151-160, April 2026.
Abstract In this contribution to a book symposium on Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image, Morwenna Ludlow reflects on John Behr's attention to the literary structure and argumentative flow of the book, its interplay with the similarly structured Timaeus of Plato and the difficulties of translating a work of such rhetorical and pastoral sophistication
Morwenna Ludlow
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Katecheza maryjna w nauczaniu religii w szkole

open access: yesColloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2018
The history of leading the catechised to Christ through catechesis on Mary, the Mother of God, has a long tradition on the Polish lands. The prophetic words of Mary that she would be blessed by all generations began to fulfil in the difficult times of ...
Marian Zając
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The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-36, March 2026.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Lay persons in catechesis. Experience and challenges in the case of Slovenia

open access: yesPolonia Sacra
Unlike in most other countries, religious education did not return to public schools in Slovenia after the fall of communism. The Catholic Church intensively introduced and developed catechesis in parishes.
Tadej Stegu
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Passages and Patterns of Paschal Faith [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
(Except) The Roman Catholic Rite for the Christian Initiation of Adults has been a marvelous instrument for facilitating liturgical renewal throughout the church.
Droege, Thomas A
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