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From Idolatry to Gentilidade: Assessing Local Christians’ Religious Offences in the Goa Inquisition (17th Century)

open access: yesReligions, 2023
During the first half of the 17th century, the Goa Inquisition increased its focus on religious offences committed by the so-called Cristãos da Terra (local Christianized populations). Many of these perceived offences occurred in connection with rituals,
Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço
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A Comparison between the Pagan and Christian Apologies for Holy Images [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2021
This paper is going to draw a comparison between pagan and Christian apologies for holy images. To this end, after giving a general history of the issue, the most important criticisms made of the images and veneration of them will be briefly considered ...
Alireza Esmaeilzadeh Barzi
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Come vestono i gigli del campo: trasformazioni dell'immaginario floreale nei primi secoli cristiani

open access: yesOcula, 2020
The essay analyses the debate about use of flowers in the Early Christianity identifying two principal attitudes of the Fathers of the Church. Initially there is a negative attitude towards flowers that is related with the critique of the pagan idolatry (
Graziano Lingua
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Leadership as Idolatry

open access: yesScandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology, 2017
This study explores how an extended view of idolatry can be used to analyze leadership in organizations. Beginning with the theological anthropology of James K.
Karl Inge Tangen
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In Defence of Anthropomorphic Theism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
I reply to seven objections to anthropomorphic theism: (1) That anthropomorphic theism is idolatrous. In reply I rely on the concept/conception distinction. (2) That faith requires certainty.
Forrest, Peter
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Dvořák on the revolutionary temporalities of art [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2021
This text discusses the relations between temporality and art in some elucidative texts written by Max Dvořák (1874–1921) in the last years of his short life.
Ivan Gerát
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Religionless Christianity and the political implications of theological speech: What Bonhoeffer’s theology yields to a world of fundamentalisms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This is the author's PDF preprint of an article published in International Journal of Systematic Theology© 2009. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comThis article seeks to utilise Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity in a ...
Greggs, Tom
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Współczesne formy bałwochwalstwa – perspektywa katechetyczna

open access: yesStudia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie, 2022
On June 1, 1991, the fourth pilgrimage of St. John Paul II to his homeland started in Koszalin. The Polish Pope focused his reflection during the homilies delivered in 11 Polish cities on the Decalogue and on the commandment of love.
Radosław Mazur
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Zeugizō: The Language of Marital Infidelity in the Account of Treachery Toward the Ancestral Laws in 1 Macc 1:15

open access: yesVerbum Vitae, 2020
The present article deals with a linguistic issue well known in the Bible but not usually overtly present in the terminology of Hebrew and Greek Scripture.
Janusz Nawrot
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Christian Monotheism and Its Challengers

open access: yesVerbum Christi, 2022
The Christian Trinity is a diversified form of monotheistic faith, since the apostolic faith is rooted in the Old Testament confession, to which Jesus adhered: “the Lord our God, the Lord is one”.
Paul Wells
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