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Leibniz's philosophy of purgatory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
As a lifelong Lutheran who resisted numerous attempts by Catholic acquaintances to convert him, one might reasonably expect Leibniz to have followed the orthodox Lutheran line on disputed doctrinal issues, and thus held amongst other things that the ...
Strickland, L, Strickland, Lloyd
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Fear and Faith: The Rhetorical Strategy of the Serpent and Buddha Paths in the Dunhuang Ten Kings Sutra (S.3961)

open access: yesReligions
A unique illustrated manuscript of the Ten Kings Sutra from Dunhuang (S.3961) depicts two anomalous paths of rebirth alongside the traditional six: a path of serpents and a path of Buddhas, neither of which is found in canonical Buddhist scriptures or ...
Changjie Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Seeing the Closet or the Clothes: How Thinking Abstractly Versus Concretely Shapes Disposition Decisions

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 431-444, February 2026.
ABSTRACT When consumers declutter, they face a difficult decision: whether to keep or get rid of products that they no longer use but that still function properly. Holding on to unused products for extended periods not only clutters living spaces but also undermines consumers' mental and financial well‐being. This study investigates thinking strategies
Bingyan Hu, Cathy Cole, Jing Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Space, Place, Border. Dante and the Horizon

open access: yesBetween, 2011
Once, Dante crossed Hell to arrive on the beach of the Purgatory island, somewhere on the opposite side of the world. Obviously, at this early stage, the Austral hemisphere was not known. At the most, some geographers and theologians speculated about its
Bertrand Westphal
doaj   +1 more source

Migratory Songbirds as Potential Ectozoochorous Protist Dispersal Vectors

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
We demonstrate that migratory songbirds carry diatoms (Bacillariophyta) in their plumage, revealing an unexpected avian–algal association. All seven bird specimens we examined contained diatoms—224 frustules representing 25 genera and 9 orders, primarily freshwater, benthic pennates—some retaining chloroplasts prior to digestion and mounting (implying ...
Silas E. Fischer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Purgatory and Hell in Medieval Female Mystics’ Visions

open access: yesThe Person and the Challenges
Death and the afterlife have always evoked both fear and hope among people. Consequently, they have endeavoured to gain a deeper understanding of what lies beyond life’s earthly realm.
Paweł Mąkosa
doaj   +1 more source

Purgatory XIX, XXI, XXII [Dante in translation]

open access: yes, 2016
Presents a class of Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta that speaks of Purgatory XIX, XXI and XXII. The imagination of Dante interpreted ambiguously, according to Mazzotta, along with the love is expressed in poetic terms. In Canto XIX Dante has a strange vision
Mazzotta, Giuseppe
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Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts?

open access: yesLingBaW, 2017
The western and eastern branches of Christianity, broadly speaking Roman Catholicism (RC) and Eastern Orthodoxy (EO), have been formally separate for almost a millennium.
William J. Sullivan, Sarah Tsiang
doaj   +1 more source

The festivities of Souls: the birthday of the confraternities of the Souls of Purgatory of Braga in the Modern Age

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2019
In this work we try to analyze the birthdays of the confraternities of Braga in the Modern Age, highlighting these festivities as promoters of these institutions in favor of the Souls of Purgatory. If each of the twelve confraternities of this invocation
Maria Marta LOBO DE ARAÚJO
doaj   +1 more source

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