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 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 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