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In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Pope Francis’ Vision for a Synodal Church
Abstract ‘Synod’ and ‘synodality’ have become synonymous with Pope Francis. Since Pope Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops as a permanent office in 1965, there hasn't been any pontificate that has given these matters as much profile and attention as his has. Why is this the case, and what is Pope Francis’ vision for a synodal Church?
Eamonn Conway
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The material study of American Protestantism
Abstract This article traces the history of the material study of American Protestantism from the 1980s to today. In the 1980s, a few scholars of American religions started to incorporate material culture studies into their work. They examined religious images, objects, places, and practices according to new interdisciplinary methods. By the mid‐1990s,
Jamie L. Brummitt
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Mystical Theology of St. Simeon New Theologian [PDF]
The article deals with the problem of the divine light in the mystical works of St Symeon the New Theologian in the context of the Eastern Christian ascetical tradition.
Volokolamsk, Metropolitan Hilarion of
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Internal Difficulties in the Theology of Karl Rahner
Abstract Criticism of the theology of Karl Rahner is most often made from bases external to his thought. When the ever greater ascendancy of transcendentality in Rahner’s thought is juxtaposed with areas of his theology concretely differentiated by symbol and history, however, internal difficulties arise that jeopardize the coherence and integrality of
Henry Shea
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Part of the work of the Members of the EEC during the Congress of Celje consisted in reading and studying narrations of conversions to the faith today. In the months prior to the Congress, 4 testimonies of conversion were gathered.
Sultana, Carl-Mario
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This article deas with the metaphoric conceptualization of human internal mental sphere categories in the Christian religious discourse.The object of this study are mortal sins, dominant Christian anti-values as they have deen verbalized in Ukrainian ...
О. В. Ясіновська
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Basic Tendencies in the Sermon Discourse Study
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the sermon definitions existing in rhetoric and homiletics. The study of the developed sermons classifications contributes to more detailed and profound investigation of sermon discourse The existing definitions ...
Н. О. Кравченко
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