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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Iconoclasm as a Subject of Visual Theology / Иконоборчество как предмет визуальной теологии
Визуальная теология, 2021 The purpose of the research is analyzing philosophical and theological aspects of iconoclasm taking into account its various forms and secular analogies.
Alexander Pigalev / Александр Иванович Пигалев
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Christian Monotheism and Its Challengers
Verbum 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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Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices
Religions, 2021 This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites.
Reuven Chaim Klein
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“As we are mocked with art” (5.3.68): The Winter’s Tale comme anatomie de la réception
Sillages Critiques, 2011 As in other Shakespearean late plays, The Winter’s Tale, the question of art and the theatre is central, here especially in terms of reception and interpretation, then of hermeneutics.
Pierre Iselin
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Pachamama in Vatican: Act of Tolerance or Revision of Course? [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2020 The use of a pagan symbol – figurines of the pagan goddess Pachamama – in religious ceremonies at the Vatican during the Panamason Synod in the late 2019 and the scandal that followed caused conflicting responses from catholics in the Europe and in ...
Veronica Yazkova
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Una giustificazione cristiana dell'astrologia. Esseri umani e corpi celesti nel Cause et cure
I Quaderni del MAES, 2023 In the Middle Ages, authoritative voices of Christianity condemn astrology as a kind of idolatry that denies free will. This is the reason why, since the 12th century, the revival of interest in astrology led some thinkers to prove its compatibility with
Giulia Guidara
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From Idol to Icon: Learning to See Through the Body
ReligionsThis paper starts from the assumption that the human individual and its concomitant, the human body, are conceivably idols of secularism. There is a certain irony, perhaps an irony shared with all idols, that such idolatry is so close to, and yet so far ...
Andrew T. J. Kaethler
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Andrew Marvell’s "Bermudas," Paradisal Places, and the Protestant Critique of Sacred Space
Marvell Studies, 2023 In this article I look at Andrew Marvell’s “Bermudas” (1653-54), a work that continues to puzzle us. The poem describes an idyllic paradisal landscape, identified with the tropical Bermudas but which the reader knows belongs only to a cartography of the ...
Dominic Hubert Gavin
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Models, Idols, and the Great White Whale: Toward a Christian Faith of Nonattachment [PDF]
, 2013 The juxtaposition of models of God and Christian faith may seem repugnant to many, as models are tentative and faith aims at an abiding certainty. In fact, for many Christians, using models of God in worship amounts to idolatry. By examining Biblical and
Hustwit, J. R.
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