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Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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O costume de realizar peregrinações a lugares considerados santos, ou com uma considerável importância para determinado grupo de pessoas, é uma prática desde tempos antigos. Os motivos para empreender uma viagem a tais lugares eram diversos, mas não restam dúvidas de que o teorreligioso estava presente na maioria dos casos.
Waldecir Gonzaga, Ronny Santos De Abreu
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Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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The Problem of Christ’s Acquired Knowledge
Abstract Thomas Aquinas is universally applauded for his “courage and perspicacity” in eventually admitting an acquired knowledge in Christ. According to this doctrine, Christ, through the experience of his senses, came to know what he previously did not know.
Joshua H. Lim
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Abstract Long‐term rates of crustal uplift in southern Calabria and NE Sicily are incompletely understood due to limited information about the age of marine terraces at 1.0–1.3 km above sea level (asl). This study provides a new constraint on high‐elevation terrace ages through integrated analysis of geochronology, stratigraphy, shoreline modeling, and
Rebecca J. Dorsey +5 more
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The Roman presbyters and la bella scrittura Filocaliana
The long‐standing collaboration between Bishop Damasus of Rome and Furius Dionysius Filocalus has prompted extensive scholarly research over the years, thereby forging a lasting and inseparable link between them. This article does not seek to undermine that bond; rather, it demonstrates – on the basis of surviving epigraphic evidence – that Filocalus ...
Julia Borczyńska
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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La reinterpretación cristiana de los monumentos de la Antigüedad en la Roma de Sixto V (1585-1590)
El punto de vista de la contrarreforma sobre los monumentos antiguos era muy diferente del pensamiento de los hombres del Renacimiento. El mundo pagano había sido vencido por el cristianismo y, por consiguiente, los restos de aquél sólo tenían razón de ...
Javier Verdugo Santos
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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