Abstract Medieval angels between hierarchies and history The essay’s purpose is to expose the nature of medieval debate about angels and, at the same time, to investigate the reception of 2 crucial texts for angelology over the centuries: De celesti hierarchia by Pseudo-Dionysius the

Massimo Campanini (Angeli delle nazioni) Abstract: Angels or demons: the origin of power in Islamic tradition Il saggio esplora la questione dell’origine del potere politico nella tradizione islamica a partire dalla figura dell’angelo decaduto e del suo rapporto col potere terreno. Pr

Abstract The angel of Israel and the angels of nations in Midrashic sources The essay focuses on one of the fundamental books for Jewish exegesis, namely the Bereshit Rabbà, and particularly on two episodes that concern the patriarch Ja’akov, better known as Jacob, present in Genesis:

Abstract The Angelicus principatus and the communitatis angel in the reflection of the Scholastics of the 16th and 17th centuries The article analyzes the reflections of three late Scholastic theologians (Tommaso de Vio or “Gaetanus”, Giovanni Paolo Nazari and Francisco Suárez), expos

Abstract The God of Israel’s vicarious angel: origin and necessity of a substitutive political function This paper analyzes the origins of the concept of the Angel of the Nation within the Judaic tradition. The main features and functions of the intermediary figure of the divine messe

Abstract The expression «Angels of the nations» does not appear in the Book of Revelation. Nevertheless, on the one hand, the angels operate between God and the nations, and thus all have some kind of relationship with peoples, or at least with individual humans; on the other hand, th

Abstract There is no one consistent translation of the term parrhesia in the Vulgata. This would seem to create an insurmountable obstacle to the reception of the concept, not so much in the Paleochristian world – still close to Hellenistic influences – but rather in the studia and th

Abstract The theme of parrhesia clearly emerges in a few dense pages, dating back to the 1950s, by two of the greatest theologians of the 20th Century. At first sight Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner seem to be restating two different but already traditional interpretations: the

Abstract This paper shows that while the Greek parrhesia is above all concerned with the public and political spheres, the one of the Jews integrates and directs both spheres towards a different perspective, in which the religious dimension is strongest. In this new dimension parrhesi

Abstract This paper encapsulates the Evangelical theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s reasons for working with the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany and, when arrested and tortured, hiding his own position. This dissimulation is understood as an example of renouncing parrhesia, for which Bo