This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it.
Stories about the Virgin Mary began to appear in the second century, a spring of tradition that branched off from the mainstream teaching of the canonical gospels.
En remettant l’exhortation apostolique post-synodale, Africae munus le 19 novembre 2011 à Ouidah (Benin), le pape Benoît XVI a confié à l’Église-Famille de Dieu en Afrique « un trésor précieux [pour l’aider] à vivre, au nom de Jésus, la réconciliation entre les personnes et les communautés, et à promouvoir pour tous la paix et la justice dans la vérité » (Africae munus, n°1).
Step into the enigmatic world of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose reign marked a unique crossroads between mysticism, art, and emerging scientific thought.
This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations.
Enacting the Reformation in Germany brings together sixteen essays and articles written over a thirty-year period by a historian who has made it his special scholarly concern to trace and analyze the social consequences of the German Reformation's salient ideas and positions.
«Wenn Kafka nicht gebetet hat – was wir nicht wissen –, so war ihm doch aufs höchste eigen, was Malebranche ‹das natürliche Gebet der Seele› nennt – die Aufmerksamkeit.
Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women.
Die immer stärker werdende Zuwendung zu der eigenen Leiblichkeit und der Welt, erleben viele Menschen als Verhinderung der Rückkehr ihres Bewusstseins zu sich, zu der eigenen Tiefe im Inneren.
In der frühneuzeitlichen Debatte um den Rang der Frauen in der Gesellschaft, der sogenannten "Querelle des femmes", spielten religiöse Positionierungen und biblische Referenzen eine herausragende Rolle.
