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Communicating Transcendent Love: Interpersonal Encounter and Church–State Transitions in Fratelli tutti

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This essay analyzes Pope Francis’ social teaching on relationality within his 2020 encyclical letter Fratelli tutti [Brothers all]. The relationship between the Church and modern nation-states is an important macro-level social dynamic, and Francis ...
Jon P. Radwan, Roger B. Alfani
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
wiley   +1 more source

Brunia Lam., Encycl.

open access: yes, 2019
6. Brunia Lam., Encycl. 1(2): 474. 1785, nom. cons. [McNeill & al., ICBN: 307. 2006], non L. (1754); Pillans in J. S. African Bot. 13: 178. 1947 p.p. ≡ Nebelia Neck. ex Sweet, Hort. Brit.: 116. 1830, nom. illeg. et rej. (ICBN Art. 14.4); Pillansin J. S. African Bot. 13: 178. 1947 – Type: Brunia paleacea P.J. Bergius ≡ Nebelia paleacea (P.J. Bergius)
Claßen-Bockhoff, Regine   +3 more
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The Love of God as a Gift and A Commandment in the Light of the Encyclical Deus Caritas Est by Benedict XVI

open access: yes, 2017
Love, which according to Pope Benedict XVI is the essence of Christianity, must be re–presented (presented anew) today, because God loves everyone without exception. The message of divine love must also be properly explained.
Marek Kluz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transatlantic Anti‐Catholic Networks, Bibles and School Disputes in the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 520-536, December 2025.
In the later nineteenth century, British, Canadian and American Evangelicals set up transatlantic religious networks to fight the Catholic Church and to affirm their Protestant Anglophone identities. Accordingly, Evangelical militants perceived their struggle as being transnational despite the diametrically different State–Church relationship contexts ...
Geraldine Vaughan
wiley   +1 more source

The Humanistic-Anthropocosmic Paradigm as a Framework for Transforming Slum Settlements in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesLocal Wisdom
The aim of this paper is to elucidate the new humanistic-anthropocosmic paradigm as a framework for transforming urban slum settlements in Indonesia amidst climate change and within a multidimensional living context.
Yohanes Djarot Purbadi   +1 more
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Letters dedicated to polemics around the «Encyclical», from the hectograph text collection of the Russian State Library [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2015
The author tells in his introductory article to the publication the history of the emergence of hectography in Russia and touches upon the related questions of describing hectograph texts from the collection of the Russian State Library devoted, among ...
Anton Grigoriev
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The Substance of Things Hoped For: On the Faith and the Economy (Promoting what we Oppose, Part 2) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the first part of this series it was argued that there is an inextricable bond between economic and cultural liberalism such that when Catholics identify the faith with the defence of neoliberal economics, even though they may oppose abortion, they ...
Tilley, Robert
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1274-1290, December 2025.
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
wiley   +1 more source

The Scales Integral to Ecology: Hierarchies in Laudato Si’ and Christian Ecological Ethics

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ advocates for an “ecological conversion” to the ideal of “integral ecology”. In so doing, it offers insights into different scales of moral attention, resonating with sophisticated thinking ...
Kevin J. O’Brien
doaj   +1 more source

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