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 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 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