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One Life/Many Lives: An Internal Hindu-Christian Dialogue

Religions, 2018
This essay consists of philosophical and comparative theological reflections on the topic of rebirth, or reincarnation. Informed by the work of William James, John Hick, and Francis X.
Jeffery D. Long
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Matelda, personaggio narrativo

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2021
This article analyzes Matelda’s narrative function, first of all noting the variety of her roles in the last Cantos of Purgatory. It is emphasized that Dante could hardly have thought of a historical figure, while it is probable that this character also ...
Alberto Casadei
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FRAMING DANTE AT HARVARD: A STUDY OF EARLY DANTEAN TRACES IN ELIOT’S “CIRCE’S PALACE” [PDF]

Езиков свят
This article examines Eliot’s “Circe’s Palace”, which he wrote during his student years at Harvard. The conducted analysis surveys several images, namely: that of an unnamed female figure, of a garden, of flowers, and of a fountain. The selected images
Hristo DIMITROV
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Can Purgatory Help? Reflections from Dramatic Theology in the Context of the Abuse Crisis

Journal of Moral Theology, 2023
In the search for justice, many survivors of sexual abuse encounter the difficulty that their tormentors have already died. In such cases legal justice cannot work and a personal confrontation is impossible.
Nikolaus Wandinger
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Counting half-shekels – Redeeming souls? in 2 Maccabees 12:38–45

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
This article deals with a highly debated text, namely 2 Maccabees 12, specifically the problematic verses (38–45) which contain a theology that is distinctly non-Jewish in import. Indeed, most recent scholars concerned with this passage do not seem to be
Nicholas P.L. Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan
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Tinjauan Teologis Mengenai Konsep Purgatory dan Implikasinya Terhadap Soteriologi [Theological Review of the Concept of Purgatory and Its Implications for Soteriology]

Diligentia: Journal of Theology and Christian Education
The concept of purgatory or what is known as purification is one of the concepts that the Catholic Church believes as a truth for those who during their lifetime had a close relationship with God, but were still not pure enough to enter heaven, so a ...
Suparman Suparman, Bimo Setyo Utomo, Dahlia Juliadil Veronica Zebua   +2 more
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Space, Place, Border. Dante and the Horizon

Between, 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
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Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts?

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

Studia 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
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“The Path of Purgatory”: A metaphor for spiritual growth in the aesthetics of I.S. Shmelyov (the article “On Dostoevsky” and the novella “The Pilgrimage”)

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. An analysis of the sustained metaphor of “purgatory” is conducted, which unites I.S. Shmelyov’s later literary-critical essay “On Dostoevsky” with the novel “The Idiot” (1949) and his autofiction “Pilgrimage” (1931).
A. V. Markov
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