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Imprisonment, Liberation and Peregrination of Jan Simonides and His Comrade Tobias Masnik in the Context of The Smalcald Articles by Luther [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2015 The 16th and 17th centuries, which are of interest to me, were a period of intolerance not only from the Catholic side, but also among Protestants. However, it cannot be evaluated by contemporary standards.
Barbara Suchoń-Chmiel
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Death by Stoning in the Hebrew Bible and in Post-Biblical Traditions
Old Testament Essays, 2022 Different modes of death appear in the Hebrew Bible, among which we find stoning as a form of execution. Since the person is dead, why does the Bible go to such lengths to describe this manner of death? In order to proffer an answer, we shall examine the
Shaul Bar
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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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, 2018 This study seeks to contrast absorption-addiction idolatry and identification-emulation idolatry. Whereas absorption-addiction idolatry progresses from entertainment/socializing to personalizing and obsession about the idol, identification-emulation ...
Xiao Dong Yue, Chau-kiu Cheung
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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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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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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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Arthroscopy, EarlyView.Abstract Predicting the clinical course of rotator cuff repairs is one of the most significant and unresolved challenges in shoulder surgery. Most established predictors of retear (e.g., advanced age, fatty infiltration, large tear size, and tendon retraction) are nonmodifiable—already set prior to the time the patient arrives in the operating room ...
Dustin J. Kress, Toufic R. Jildeh
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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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‘Idolatry’ and Religious Diversity: Thinking about the Other in Early Modern Europe [PDF]
, 2014 Idolatry is a key concept in the history of Western thinking about religion, as an all-encompassing category in which all religions more or less alien to the Christian tradition could be subsumed.
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