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Pre-industrial Use of Bauxite by Late Gothic Goldsmith Masters: Analytical Evidence and Experimental Study. [PDF]

Chempluschem
First analytical evidence and replication of yet undescribed substantial change in gilding technology in the early modern period ‐ the replacement of imported red clay (bole) with locally available bauxite. Proof of its source ‐ Croatian Minjera, according to a unique find of mineral diaspore.
Hradil D, Hradilová J, Bezdička P, Razum I.   +3 more
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Providence, Divine Causality, and the Gratuitousness of Love: A Thomist Perspective

New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1114, Page 796-817, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Broadly drawing on the writings of Thomas Aquinas, this article is a systematic‐theological (rather than historical‐theological) engagement with the theme of providence and divine causality. It aims to dispel some modern misunderstandings of these topics by highlighting how pre‐modern approaches differ from today's perspective.
Rik Van Nieuwenhove
wiley   +1 more source

Visual representations of dromedaries in Greco‐Roman antiquity and the middle ages: Imagining the other before orientalism

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 493-521, July 2023., 2023
Abstract The diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary found in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History rightfully belongs to an Orientalist artistic tradition that crystallized many of the discriminatory misrepresentations of people of color that have plagued our society to this day.
Mathilde Sauquet
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Being Wounded: Finitude and the Infinite in Jean Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 413-434, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Wounds appear throughout the writings of Jean‐Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa. Most well known in Chrétien's corpus is his description of prayer as a “wounded word,” a phrase that seeks to describe an ungraspable dimension of phenomenal life in which the contingency and groundlessness of finitude appear as gifts.
Thomas Breedlove
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Forgiveness and the Novelty of Christian Ethics

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 472-489, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Christian faith, and particularly Christian Ethics, must wrestle with the questions of novelty and continuity posed by Scripture's declaration that a new thing has occurred with the advent of Jesus Christ. The contrasting perspectives on the Law by Thomas Aquinas and Herman Bavinck focus these questions and suggest that forgiveness is an ...
Andrew Errington
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Constructing clandestine communities: oaths of collective secrecy and conceptual boundaries in the late antique Mediterranean

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 171-193, May 2023., 2023
This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
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Mnisi jako „żołnierze” Chrystusa w nauczaniu Jana Chryzostoma. Analiza 69. i 70. homilii z cyklu "Homilie na Ewangelię według św. Mateusza"

Vox Patrum, 2015
This article considers the subject of spiritual warfare led by monks as the “sol­diers” of Christ. Author of the article analyzed two John Chrysostom’ homilies (69 and 70) from the series Homily on the Gospel according to St. Matthew.
Piotr Szczur
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Fathers of the Church in the spiritual culture of medieval Russia

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 1998
The spiritual world of medieval Russia can be represented by the works of the most characteristic, brightest and most revered authors. Among them, undoubtedly, such as John Chrysostom, John Climacus, Isaac the Syrian, Basil the Great.
N. V. Naumova
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Empress Eudoxia in the Light of the 5th-Century Ecclesiastical Histories

Vox Patrum, 2020
In the dispute between John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, and the imperial court the main role is generally attributed to Empress Eudoxia, who was blamed for causing his exile.
Sławomir Bralewski
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Czy dusza walczy z ciałem? Wybrane aspekty antropologii św. Jana Chryzostoma

Vox Patrum, 2015
This article takes the theme of the fight of the soul with the body and presents selected items of anthropology of St. John Chrysostom. John Chrysostom examines the human situation after original sin in the eschatological aspect and indicates that the ...
Piotr Szczur
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