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