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As an introduction to ecclesiology, this course seeks to provide a fundamental understanding the Church’s origin, nature, structure, and mission. An overview of the New Testament and historical sources for the theology of the Church will... more
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      Catholic TheologyEcclesiologyEcumenismPapacy
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Paper delivered at the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta 21 th-24th November 2015, at the seminar 'What is point of Synods?' organized by the Ecclesiological Investigations Group. The theology and the practice of synodality in... more
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      EcclesiologyPapacySensus FideiLumen Gentium
I believe that the best way to approach our topic is to walk the path of history. I don't say it in order to force the present discussion onto a plain that's familiar and comfortable for megiven the fact that my work is as a Church... more
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      AtheismSoviet HistoryMissiologyCommunism
The consensus on Pope Honorius III (1216–27) is that he was a conciliatory politician who lacked the harder edge possessed by his immediate predecessor and successor. Yet, using overlooked evidence regarding the role of Honorius in... more
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      Diplomatic HistoryHigh Middle AgesLate Middle AgesMedieval History
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesPolitical ScienceBiblical Studies
While the author cannot speak for churches of Christ, common among them are unique ways of understanding holy scripture, believed to have been written by apostles and prophets of the Lord before the destruction of Jerusalem (70 A.D.) and... more
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      MarketingCanon LawPhilosophyCommunication
Estudio en profundidad sobre como debe entenderse la actual vacancia de la Sede Apostolica y que debe hacerse al respecto.
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      EcclesiologyThomismSedevacantismPapacy
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      HistoryPatristicsHistorical TheologyHermeneutics
Joannes Leo Africanus, (c. 1494 – c. 1554?) (or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic:حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي) was an Andalusian Amazigh Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell’Africa... more
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      Modern LanguagesReligionHistoryAncient History
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      HistoryMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesCrusades
"Houve um tempo em que a história política era considerada um campo de estudos em declínio. Ao longo das últimas duas décadas, na Europa Ocidental, nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil, os trabalhos sobre a história política da Idade Média... more
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      HistoryMedieval HistoryHistory of ReligionPortuguese Studies
Sul finire dell'VIII secolo Roma contava una notevole quantità di edifici religiosi: chiese, monasteri e oratori. La maggior parte erano decisamente antichi, altri -non molti, bisogna dire -erano di più recente costruzione. Un gran numero... more
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      Papacy (Medieval Church History)Medieval ArtPapacyMedieval Rome
Neste trabalho apresentamos uma tradução bilíngue, latim-português, de um importante documento medieval, a bula Ad extirpanda (1252). Usualmente qualificada como um dos “textos fundadores da Inquisição”, essa bula é um documento valioso... more
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      ReligionChristianityLawCanon Law
This study challenges the prevailing scholarly opinion that pope Gregory I's instruction to transform the pagan shrines of Kent into Christian churches was a direct countermand to his earlier missive that the shrines should be destroyed.... more
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      ChristianityMedieval HistoryEarly ChristianityChristian Missions
A lo largo de los siglos Roma se ha constituido como un mito, un referente al que han acudido todos los poderes hegemónicos –o que aspiraban a serlo– de cada periodo histórico. El ideal romano se ha configurado como paradigma de potestas... more
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      Roman HistoryHistory and Classical tradition studiesRome, City ofPapacy (Medieval Church History)
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      Augustine of HippoPapacySaint AugustineSt. Augustine
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      HistoryCanon LawConstitutional LawMedieval History
I offer the published version of my article. This work presents an in-depth study of Mark's method of doing ecclesiology and ranking theological authorities. Quite a few, heretofore unknown, facts have been discovered: (1.) The important... more
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      EcclesiologyNicholas of CusaOrthodox EcclesiologyEcumenical Ecclesiology
"'Colunas de São Pedro' divide-se em duas partes que, de acordo com o título, dão sustentação à própria instituição da Ecclesia: territorialidade do poder e o poder sobre o tempo. Embora essas duas colunas de sustentação sejam... more
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      ReligionHistoryMedieval HistoryHistory of Christianity
Arzobispo con diecisiete años, cardenal con dieciocho y al poco tiempo capitán general de los ejércitos pontificios, César Borgia es uno de los personajes más fascinantes del Renacimiento. Sus treinta y dos años de vida condensan la... more
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      HistoryRenaissancePapacyBorgia Family
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      InquisitionEarly Modern Church HistoryHistory of the JewsHeresy and Inquisition
Mitos Papais é um livro sobre uma disputa pela verdade. Entre 1870 e 1950, um intenso combate foi travado para definir o lugar cabível ao Vaticano no mundo atual. Assolados pelo declínio político, os papas já não eram capazes de fazê-lo... more
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      ReligionChristianityMythology And FolkloreHistory
ABSTRACT On the night of the 13th of February 1308, exactly four months after the general arrest of the Knights Templars in France on the order of King Philip IV the Fair, Giacomo da Montecucco, the master of the Templar province of... more
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      ChristianityHistoryMedieval HistoryHistory of Religion
Arzobispo con diecisiete años, cardenal con dieciocho y al poco tiempo capitán general de los ejércitos pontificios, César Borgia es uno de los personajes más fascinantes del Renacimiento. Sus treinta y dos años de vida condensan la... more
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      HistoryRenaissancePapacyBorgia Family
Benedicto XVI puede ser llamado con el título de Defensor del Logos porque ha intentado reivindicarlo en todos sus aspectos. En el presente ensayo tomamos como punto de partida su discurso en la universidad de Ratisbona para estudiar, en... more
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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval StudiesCatholic TheologyTeologia
Contient : Dossier 2. Le combat contre les Hohenstaufen et leurs alliés - Présentation - Orientation bibliographique - Document 5. Innocent IV promulgue une sentence de déposition de l’empereur Frédéric II devant le concile universel... more
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      ReligionHistoryLate Middle AgesMedieval History
Grazie a Bonifacio e alle sue missioni giunsero tra i Germani centrali e settentrionali non solo il cristianesimo istituzionalizzato, ma anche la scrittura e la letteratura latina, la legge scritta su modello franco-romano (più... more
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      ChristianityMedieval LiteratureMedieval HistoryGerman History
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      Medieval HistoryEarly Medieval ArchaeologyEarly Medieval HistoryArchitectural History
Highly Commended in the British Records Association Janette Harley Prize 2018. The pontificate of Honorius III (1216–27) ranks among the most important papal reigns of the thirteenth century: the pope organised two large-scale crusades... more
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      High Middle AgesLate Middle AgesMedieval HistoryMedieval Studies
Using class visits to sites as diverse as catacombs, Roman ruins, and Christian churches this class examines how the entire fabric of the western, if not the global world, is intertwined with the 2000 year old history of the Catholic... more
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      Ecclesiastical HistoryPapacyHistory of the Papacy
La Anunciación de San Gabriel a la Santísima Virgen María contiene virtualmente la Historia del Reino de Dios participado a las naciones y la eliminación del pseudopapado contemporáneo.
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      Cognitive PsychologyMathematicsHistory of ChristianitySpirituality
Estratto dalla rivista Arte Medievale anno VII -(2008), 1 -pagine 55-80 1. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 976, f. 4v: Magister Nicolaus, iniziali decorate, terzo quarto del XIII secolo (© Pierpont Morgan Library, New York). 2.... more
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      Medieval HistoryLiturgyMedieval StudiesRare Books and Manuscripts
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      Diplomatic HistoryDiplomacyModernismHistory of the Roman Curia
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      ReligionHistoryPhilosophyMedieval Philosophy
This paper will focus on a specific aspect of how the relationship between tradition and the ecclesiastical authority is understood in the contemporary Catholic Church within the context of the twentieth-century liturgical reforms... more
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      LiturgyOrthodox ChristianityPapacyCatholic Liturgy
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      History of the Roman CuriaPapacyPapacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History)Nineteenth Century Papacy
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      ReligionHistoryCanon LawLegitimacy and Authority
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      DiversityCold War and CultureHistory of ScienceCold War
L'espressione 'Chiesa romana' identifica tre realtà fra loro ben distinguibili. Questa è infatti sinonimo di Chiesa cattolica, di curia romana e di Chiesa della diocesi di Roma. Allo stesso modo, l'espressione 'clero romano' è trivalente:... more
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      Medieval HistoryRome, City ofMedieval Church HistoryPapacy (Medieval Church History)
I pApI nel RISoRgImento tra Settecento ed ottocento si ha un movimento politico europeo eterogeneo, che porta a distinguere il potere spirituale da quello temporale. tale distinzione passa per l'estinzione del dominio temporale della... more
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      RisorgimentoPapacyPope Pius IxPapacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History)
The Catholic Church celebrated two important centennials in 2016: on the one hand the 800th recurrence of the papal approbation of the Dominican Order, and on the other hand the remembrance of the 700th anniversary of the death of the... more
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      Cultural StudiesHagiographyRamon LlullHistory of Missions
The system of papal provision – through which medieval clergy were appointed to ecclesiastical benefices across Christendom – has remained controversial ever since its inception in the 12th century. Xenophobic contemporary commentators,... more
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      Diplomatic HistoryHigh Middle AgesLate Middle AgesMedieval History
ENGLISH VERSION In the early 1100s, the fifth-century church of S. Clemente in Rome was buried beneath an entirely new basilica. Inspired by suggestions published by Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (1998) and Valentino Pace (2007), the... more
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      Cultural HistoryHagiographyRome, City ofComparative History
A long established tradition found in sources as early as the writings of St Cyprian and St Augustine and drawing on biblical precedent, allows occasions when lower ranking members of the church may speak out to advise or correct... more
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      Augustine of HippoRomePapacyOrthodoxy
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      Ottoman HistoryOttoman StudiesOttoman EmpireEconomic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire
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      Canon LawMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesLegal History
1 G. CARDINALE, Un salesiano scelto da papa Benedetto. Intervista con il cardinale Tarcisio Bertone, in "30Giorni" 7/8 (luglio/agosto 2006), (on-line): http://www.30giorni. it/articoli_id_11148_l1.htm. 2 «Voici une autre historiette gaie.... more
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      RisorgimentoPapacyPapacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History)Italian Risorgimento
The goal of this article is to analyze the mechanisms used by Catholic Church authorities during the early modern period to control and repress heresies, as well as the ways in which foreign heretics were converted and eventually... more
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      European HistoryCultural HistoryMedieval HistoryInquisition
La figura di Benedetto XVI è stata più volte oggetto di approvazioni e di critiche da parte di ampi settori del mondo cattolico e più in generale dell’opinione pubblica, sia durante il pontificato sia in seguito alla rinuncia... more
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      Catholic StudiesCatholic Social TeachingCatholic TheologyHistory of Roman Catholicism