Abstract The mandate of  the redeemer and the duties of the redeemed. The origins of a paradigm of legitimization of economic and political relations (II – V century)  In this paper I present a wide range of patristic texts, which – through theological discussion of the “divine

Abstract Roman redemptio and its Christian reinterpretation. A contribution to the history of the concept of “redemption” The paper deals with the concept of redemption developed by a number of Early Christian authors (Origen and Ambrose of Milan in particular). Special at

Abstract Politics and redemption in Otto Pfleiderer’s Paulinismus. A note on the Letter to the Colossians This paper discusses Otto Pfleiderer’s interpretation of the Letter to the Colossians in his Paulinismus. The cosmological-historical valence that Paul gives to Christ’s act

Abstract Redemption and Reformation: some elements of reflection for a self-critical “political theology” This paper provides some reflections on the concept of redemption in the Reformed Churches. First, the impact of previous theologies on the Reformation will be mention

Download PDF The Temple as Sanctuary and the Right of Asylum (Tiziana Faitini) Abstract The entry deals with some aspects of the history of the concept of ‘temple’. In the Western tradition, the temple coincides, at least to some extent, with the territorialisation of the sacred. It i

Abstract «Templorum praerogative cum legaterum domibus communicabantur». The temple in the debate on the inviolability of the diplomatic seat in the early Modern Age This paper analyses two issues which emerged from the diplomatic practice of the 16th and 17th Centuries and which have

Abstract The temple in early Christianity. From Pauline deconstruction to Constantinian reconstruction This essay deals with the controversial relationship between the first three and a half centuries of Christianity and the “temple”. It focusses particularly on Paul and his identific

Abstract The temple, the visible Church and the invisible Church. Some notes on theological juridism from Rudolph Sohm onwards This essay begins with the theological anti-legalism of Rudolph Sohm in order to reconstruct some of the ecclesiological implications of the debate between le

Abstract Places of santification. The liturgical sacredness of the Genevan Reformed temples (16th-17th century)  This essay focuses on the Genevan Reformation in an attempt to better understand the Reformed view of the relationship between place and sacrality. Doctrinal sources and ar