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epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Larry Siedentop [Siedentop, Larry]
Evidently, Gaius did not assume an underlying equality of moral status. His use of ‘person’ was purely descriptive and physical. It carried no moral implications. The church, following Constantine’s conversion, ...
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History & Theory
February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Lee
Reynald’s destination was the holiest place of all – the very wellspring of the crusading spirit. Pilgrims flocked from all over Christendom to pray nearby at Christ’s birthplace in Bethlehem, ...
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January 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Nadler
9 “The Jew of Voorburg” IN 1665, the village of Voorburg, just outside The Hague, was in the grip of a rancorous civil dispute over who would be the next ...
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General
November 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-06 | Author:Ulrich L. Lehner [Lehner, Ulrich L.]
Muratori and the Spirit of Liturgical Renewal Nobody exemplifies the spirit of Catholic Enlightenment better than Ludovico Muratori, a librarian and priest in Modena who regularly engaged in literary disputes. ...
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November 25,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Nicholas Ostler [Ostler, Nicholas]
to kto mojetĭ na vodou besědou pisati ili Eretičĭsko imă sebě obrěsti So who can write speech upon water, or find for himself the name of a heretic?6 Nonetheless, he ...
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November 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:James J. O'Donnell [O'Donnell, James J.]
Chapter 12 THE BIRTH OF PAGANISM ALEXANDRIA OCCUPIED A MATCHLESS SITE ON ITS MAN-MADE harbor facing the Mediterranean at one of the mouths of the Nile. Easily the most cultured, ...
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Paganism
July 9,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Thomas F. Madden
Illustration 1. Peter the Hermit leading the First Crusade. Miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500, f. 45v. © De Agostini/The British Library Board. Illustration 2. Templar riding into battle. Fresco from ...
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Christianity
June 9,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:St. John of the Cross & Wyatt North
6. The second way in which the soul suffers pain is by reason of its weakness, natural, moral and spiritual; for, when this Divine contemplation assails the soul with a ...
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April 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Feiler
We entered Nebuchadnezzar II’s palace. Reconstructed walls of caramel-colored bricks climbed forty feet high, topped with hundreds of small pyramidal merlons. The walls were interrupted with elongated arches, more than ...
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March 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Susan Jacoby
The intelligent designer, then, accounts for miracles and the ordinary workings of nature, for the demonstrable and the undemonstrable. Boyle’s work laid the foundation for the most famous argument for ...
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March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Susan Jacoby
* * * *1 A group of twelve men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met and resolved to form an organization “for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning.” In ...
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March 4,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Rodney Stark
HERESY AS WITCHCRAFT In some parts of Europe the word for witch was gazarius, which is a corruption of Cathar, and in many areas it was wuadensis or vaudois, both ...
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Christianity
February 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Philip Gardiner & Gary Osborn [Gardiner, Philip & Osborn, Gary]
Our British ancestors, under the tuition of the venerable Druids, were not only worshippers of the solar deity, symbolized by the serpent, but held the serpent, independent of his relation ...
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February 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Eddie S. Glaude Jr. [Jr., Eddie S. Glaude]
African Americans from every sector of life were drafted to fight the battle against fascism in World War II. More than 3 million African American men enlisted in the armed ...
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African-American Studies
January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Jolyon Mitchell
Reforming martyrdom in historical context King Henry VIII (1491–1547) bequeathed to his children a nation divided over religion. Henry had effectively made a declaration of independence from the pope’s authority ...
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January 8,2016 )
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