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

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

Abstract Temple, Jerusalem, city of shelter. The geography of sacred space transformed into a religion without place. When we consider the history of the temple in Jerusalem, we realise that its holiness became a spatial template for other religious institutions, allowing them, too, t