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 Bernhard Welte in the wake of Heidegger. From the temple to the shopping mall (or the end of the temple) This essay discusses the fact that sacred spaces are today disappearing, through an examination of Bernhard Welte’s considerations on the meaning of the temple and its spa

Abstract Corbin and the meditation on temple This essay examines the extent to which the theological-political understanding of the temple as a space and a territorialisation of the sacred, and the interpretation offered by Henri Corbin of the concept of the imago templi, differ. Corb

Abstract What do we see when we think about “temple”?  This essay develops the theme of the temple from the perspective of a phenomenology of the image. In doing so, it intends to problematize the very concept of the temple and its correspondence with images, and to avoid

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: Introduction. The temple as a theological-political concept. The essay deals with some aspects of the history of the concept of “temple”, in order to highlight the intertwining of the theological and political dimensions which its development reveals. In Western tradition, t

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

Abstract Templum and temple. Clarifications on the notion of templum This essay explores the Roman concept of templum. The word has two different, religious, meanings. The first denotes a space which has been divided from earthly space by the words of an augur and becomes the context