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 Pidion Haben, the redemption of the firstborn. Theological-political interpretations of a Mitzvah The paper deals with the mitzwà issued by Shemot/Exodus 13: 13, which imposes the consecration and the ransom of every, human and animal, first-born. This commandment, called pid

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 Around the Ka‘ba. A theological-political journey between history and jihad The temple plays a crucial part in Islam. The phenomenology of the Islamic temple reflects a vital characteristic of the religion: the dialectic between exteriority (zāhir) and interiority (bātin), be

 Abstract From Abraham’s tent to the homes of believers. The sacredness of the guest in Islamic tradition This essay deals with the concept of hospitality in the Islamic tradition. According to a Koranic verse dedicated to the various components of “true pity” (in Arabic birr, Q

Abstract The temple and the Messiah. The theo-political eschatology of rabbinic Judaism This paper discusses aspects of eschatological and halakhic thought linked to the themes of the temple and messianic redemption developed by Rabbinical Judaism, and proposes that an understanding o