About Normative Sanctities and Dissident Spiritualities by María Luisa Solís Zepeda

“…The paper discusses the case of beatas, women who were often at odds with ecclesiastical authorities due to their unconventional experiences and practices. …”
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Édition et nicodémisme dans l’Italie du xvie siècle by Dominique Fratani

“…This analysis focuses on what is a relatively little known aspect of works published in 16th century Italy, and concerns the relations between the ecclesiastical sphere, aspiring to a renovatio ecclesiae, and that of the publishing industry, particularly between 1542 and 1560. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…The historical nature of ecclesiastical chronicles fluctuated between furnishing exact information and omitting specific facts while displaying certain narrative strategies that served the ultimate goal of the Dominican friars. …”
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Pavel Aleksadrovic Florenskij's method of discerning spiritual truth by C. Camilleri

“…It presents the Russian polymath’s method within his socio-political and ecclesiastical contexts and two of his works, namely his magnum opus entitled The pillar and ground of truth, and his lecture Reason and dialectics, both of which are significant for interpreting Florenskij’s thought. …”
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Living out nonconformity: Restoration ministers and their diaries by Colin HARRIS

“…In 1662 the Cavalier Parliament passed the Act of Uniformity to impose ecclesiastical conformity. Ministers were ordered to declare in front of their congregations their “unfeigned assent and consent” to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. …”
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Onde estavam as freguesias goianas até 1783? by Vinicius Sodré Maluly

“…This paper proposes a study on the ecclesiastical structure of the Captaincy of Goyaz until the year of 1783. …”
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TO UNITE OR NOT TO UNITE? A CASE STUDY OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1897-1923 by G A Duncan

“…This article investigates the issues at stake in the attempts to establish one Presbyterian denomination from the disparate Scottish ecclesiastical bodies, using primary and secondary sources and focusing mainly on the issue of racism. …”
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THE 17TH-CENTURY JOHANNES HOORNBEECK’S VIEWS ON MISSION, ECUMENISM AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY AND ITS CURRENT RELEVANCE by J W Hofmeyr

“…This critical overview also focuses on the Further Reformation as an ecclesiastical and theological development. …”
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Jusepe de Ribera in the Kingdom of Valencia and the workshop of Juan Sariñena: the formation of an artist by DEBORAH FELLER

“…Clues to his early training exist within the Valencian cultural and social milieus of the period, where the Archbishop of Valencia, Juan de Ribera, acquired works from Italy and the Low Countries, and the city’s official painter, the Aragonese Juan Sariñena (1545-1619), fulfilled commissions for the ecclesiastical and civic authorities. The article argues that the young Ribera learned to paint from Sariñena and that his master held the keys to Rome by virtue of his stay there and his connections with the Aragonese national church in that city. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…Exotica from the natural world – naturalia – were frequently fashioned into ecclesiastical and seigniorial artifacts and housed in treasuries. …”
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Éclairage sur le rôle des moines chartreux du Val-Saint-Esprit dans le démantèlement du château comtal de Gosnay (comté d’Artois, Pas-de-Calais) au début du xvie siècle by Mathieu Béghin

“…The various stages of this process, from the downgrading of the fortified place by the count of Artois, to the various actors of the dismantling and the building materials resale, have been found in administrative, accounting and notarial unpublished information sources, from ecclesiastical and secular spheres.…”
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Saintly Models and Lifestyles in the Sociological Tradition by Luigi Berzano

“…The conclusion, From heroic saints to sustainable models of holiness, formulates two fields of future research: relations between models of sanctity and sociocultural, economic and ecclesiastical contexts; and the progressive power of the papacy in controlling and declaring holiness.…”
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Restoration of the Greek Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia During the Prague Spring by Ľuboslav Hromják

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Lugares de reunión, boni homines y presbíteros en Valdevimbre y Ardón en la Alta Edad Media by Fernando Luis Corral

“…This fact reports us about the increasing social inequality produced inside these peasant communities.We will also explore changes in location of meeting places chosen to solve conflicts between community members and the ones of some ecclesiastical institutions and aristocracy as a way to better know the political side of the relationship between the mentioned peasant communities and those power elites and, through them, with the Astur-leonese central power.…”
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Statul și biserica la începuturile româniei moderne: publicistica religioasă a lui Neofit Scriban by Manuela Anton

“…The Union of the Romanian Principalities (1859) was seen by the Orthodox ecclesiastical elites as an obstacle to the Slavic integration, which would have threatened the existence of the Romanian nation as a nation of Latin origin and consequently the de facto (but still not de jure) autonomy of the Romanian Orthodox Church. …”
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L’image politique comme manifeste ? Considérations sur la fresque des saints rois dans l’église (luthérienne) de Mălâncrav (xve siècle) by Doina Elena Craciun

“…This staging of the two parties seem to mirror the political context during the period when the fresco was made, at the beggining of the 15th century, a time of rebellion of the nobles and ecclesiastical authorities of Hungary against their king, Sigismund of Luxembourg. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF RUSSIAN SPIRITUAL ACADEMIES’ TEACHERS OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY by M. A. Ershova

“…The author systemizes and sums up anthropologic views of the most recognizable ecclesiastical academics in the early 20th century. Representation and analysis of anthropologic problematics in philosophical and religious papers of the Russian ecclesiastical education stage of development signify essential agreement among Russian and Western sophists; they had been discussing the same problem – a human being. …”
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Povoar e enquadrar by Maria Filomena Andrade, João Luís Fontes

“…Efforts to secure the settlement and ecclesiastical accommodation of the urban population went hand-in-hand with the gradual establishment in the city of various religious orders, some drawing upon previous eremitic experiences, others with a marked pastoral bias combining liturgy, preaching, and charitable acts. …”
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A Santidade Enfurecida by Leandro Duarte Rust

“…In the 11th century, Europe was marked by ecclesiastical conflicts. Although tensions between lay and clergy attracted, for more than a century, the largest share of the historians' attention - especially the so-called struggles between the priesthood and the empire -, the struggles between segments of the Church itself multiplied and intensified, achieving great documentary repercussion. …”
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Polish Faience from Ćmielów Factory in the Collections of the Diocesan Museum in Sandomierz by Wojciech W. Kowalski

“… Ecclesiastical objects were rarely made from ceramics and are therefore not often found in church museums. …”
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