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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

La contagion des péchés (xie-xiiie siècle). Aux origines canoniques du biopouvoir

open access: yesTracés, 2011
In the latin and christian world, we find the first regular uses of the words contagium and contagio in the doctrinal and normative literature which severly condamns the heretic groups.
Arnaud Fossier
doaj   +1 more source

Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
wiley   +1 more source

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
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Conflicting Interpretations of Holiness and Heterodoxy in Late Medieval Italy

open access: yesI Quaderni del MAES
In thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, there are a number of examples of people that local communities perceived as holy, but who ran afoul of inquisitors.  Two of the more lesser-known, but extremely polarizing local saints ― and accused heretics―
Janine Larmon Peterson
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Hérésies populaires et diabolisation : dissidence, persécutions et réhabilitation des beatas de la Couronne de Castille (1480-1580)

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2015
This article explores the heresy charges levelled against beatas in Inquisition trials from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. Focusing on trials against these notorious lay communities, this work is designed as a complement to the French ...
Laurey Braguier
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World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to prop up systems of discrimination and inequality, leading to negative material and symbolic outcomes.
Christopher Jenks
wiley   +1 more source

In Praise of Heresy: Rorty's Radical Atheism [PDF]

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2008
Rorty should be studied neither especially because of the faithfulness of his narratives of the historiography of philosophy, nor because of the correctness of his readings, but mainly because, as the great philosophers of Western philosophy, he offered ...
Eduardo Mendieta
doaj  

El error y la errancia: el pirata «luterano» épico en las Indias

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2015
At the turn of the 17th century, English privateers assaulted Spanish West Indian coasts and cities, from the Mar del Norte to the Mar del Sur. This enemy, religious and foreign, the «pirata luterano», became at that time a «two-face» epic hero in the ...
Lise Segas
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