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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Norm, Virtue and Information: Individual Behaviour and the Just Price in Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologica [PDF]

This paper aims at putting forward the analytical stake of the few passages that Thomas Aquinas devotes to prices and exchange, mainly in the Summa Theologiae. At first sight, his objective is to enlighten a confessor vis-à-vis his penitent, or the judge
André Lapidus
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Moral Living from the Perspective of Thomas Aquinas [PDF]

International Journal of Ethics and Society
Introduction: Ethical living is a lifestyle in which all areas of human existence and work are formed and flow around ethics. That is, a person who wants to live morally, in all areas, tries to know the ethical considerations related to that area and ...
Michael Makariev, Pedro Alaribo, Serdar Archanov   +2 more
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Triplex via – spotkanie między Akwinatą a Heglem?

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zwrócenie uwagi na potrzebę porównania propozycji Tomasza z Akwinu i Georga Wilhelma Friedricha Hegla co do ich projektów dotyczących poznania Boga.
Michal Paluch
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Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 543-558, July 2026.
Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 612-628, July 2026.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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Flora Einsidlensis : systematische Aufzählung der in Einsiedeln freiwachsenden und häufiger cultivirten Gefässpflanzen

Thomas A. BruhinDer Schweizerischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft zur 52.
Bruhin, Thomas Aquinas
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On the Origin of the ‘Private Sphere’: A Discourse Analysis of Religion and Politics from Luther to Locke

Temenos, 2009
This essay supplements the recent literature on the social construction of ‘religion’ by demonstrating that liberal discourses on the ‘private sphere’ and the ‘separation of church and state’ originated in a rhetorical slippage between different uses of ...
Craig Martin
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 708-729, July 2026.
Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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Why study Thomas Aquinas?

, 2017
In this episode of the ‘Why Study’ series, Dr Simon Oliver discusses why he devotes so much attention to the medieval Dominican theologian, Thomas Aquinas (1225-74); and argues that when someone today comes to grips with his thought, that learning ...
Oliver, Simon, O'Loughlin, Thomas
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