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Byzanz, der Westen und das "wahre" Kreuz : die Geschichte einer Reliquie und ihrer künstlerischen Fassung in Byzanz und im Abendland.
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ISBN: 3895003166 9783895003165 Year: 2004 Volume: Bd. 17 Publisher: Wiesbaden Reichert


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Kruisen : een studie over het gebruik van kruistekens in de ontwikkeling van het godsdienstig en maatschappelijk leven
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ISBN: 9030404868 Year: 1989 Publisher: Hilversum Gooi en Sticht


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Exaltatio crucis : het feest van Kruisverheffing en de zingeving van het kruis in het Westen tijdens de vroege middeleeuwen. Een liturgie-historische studie
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ISBN: 9036195160 9789036195164 Year: 1995 Volume: 25 Publisher: Tilburg Tilburg university press


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The cross : history, art, and controversy
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ISBN: 9780674088801 0674088808 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press

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The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies--along with the forms of devotion--this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus's death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ's sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol's transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix--the cross with the figure of Christ--and whether it should emphasize Jesus's suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus's body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen's wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the "true cross" in Jerusalem, and the symbol's role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.--


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Im Zeichen des Kreuzes : die Limburger Staurothek und ihre Geschichte ; Ausstellung anläßlich des 50. Jubiläums der Limburger Kreuzwoche
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ISBN: 9783795423049 379542304X Year: 2009 Publisher: Regensburg Schnell + Steiner

Exaltation of the cross : toward the origins of the feast of the cross and the meaning of the cross in early medieval liturgy
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ISBN: 904290951X 9789042909519 Year: 2000 Volume: 11 Publisher: Leuven Paris Peeters

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Liability and Environment : Private and Public Law Aspects of Civil Liability for Environmental Harm in an International Context
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ISBN: 9041116451 900447904X 9789041116451 9789004479043 Year: 2001 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff

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Liability and Environment analyzes the role of law, in particular civil liability, in controlling environmental pollution and risk. In modern environmental policy, liability has become a popular instrument. In this book, Prof. Bergkamp takes a fresh look at civil liability for environmental harm in an inter- and transnational context. Over the last decade, industry's liability exposure for environmental harm has expanded significantly. At the international, EC, and national level proposals for onerous strict environmental liability regimes are pending. The `polluter pays principle', which is an articulation of the `cost internalization' theory in the environmental area, is believed to justify such liability regimes. Applying an instrumental approach to legal instruments, Prof. Bergkamp aims to redefine the role of liability in the heavily regulated environmental area. He shows that liability for environmental harm is not justified by the polluter pays principle, is an uncertain and unreliable instrument for achieving prevention, results in an inefficient insurance scheme, and plays a dubious role in adjusting activity levels. Based on an analysis of the basic characteristics of alternative legal instruments, Prof. Bergkamp concludes that civil liability should play a more modest, limited role in an environmental law system dominated by public law. Where deterrence is not the objective, first party insurance, compensation funds, or other public law regimes should be preferred over liability rules. In addition to civil liability of private parties, Liability and Environment discusses State liability under international, EC, and national law. Under international law, breach of a primary obligation triggers a State's liability. Prof. Bergkamp argues that this rule should be applied also to liability of private parties. In the environmental area, a business' primary obligations are spelled out in detailed permit conditions, regulations, and statutes. According to Prof. Bergkamp, only if a primary obligation is breached, a private person should be liable for environmental harm. The system that Bergkamp advocates is an objective fault liability regime, in which public environmental law defines the standard of care for both government and industry. "In rebuilding our civil liability system, we should keep in mind that what is good for industry should be good for everyone (or it is not good for anyone), we should keep in mind that what is good for private parties should be good for the state (or it is not good for either). In rebuilding our civil liability system, the international law of State responsibility, which is unpolluted by risk spreading and activity level considerations, will guide us a long way." This book is aimed at advanced law students, academic scholars, and practitioners. In addition, it will be of interest to policy and legislative analysts, legislators, and government officials. Professor Bergkamp's book cannot be described as "solving" the problems of legal and regulatory control of environmental harm, whether within a nation or internationally. As suggested before, however, the very idea of a "solution" is illusory. All legal and regulatory regimes around the world are today and will remain for the future in a state of perpetually continuing development. The virtue of this fine book is that it moves the process of that development forward by a very substantial measure. from the Foreword by George L. Priest.

A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image
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ISBN: 9004139443 9786610915392 9047405749 1280915390 1429454725 9789004139442 9781429454728 9789047405740 Year: 2004 Volume: 22 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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In the fourth century the idea arose that the Cross on which Christ was crucified had been found by Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. Thus began a legend that would grow and flourish throughout the Middle Ages and cause the diffusion of countless splinters of holy wood. And where there is wood, there was once a tree. Could it be that the Cross was made from that most noble species, the Tree of Life? So, gathering characters along the way, the legend evolved into a tale that stretches from the Creation to the End of Time. A Heritage of Holy Wood is the first reconstruction of the iconographic and literary tradition of the Legend of the True Cross. Its broad scope encompasses relic cults, pilgrimages, travellers' tales and the Tree of Life and involves Church Fathers, crusader kings, Teutonic Knights and mendicant orders, all of which influenced the legend's depiction from its earliest representation in manuscripts, reliquaries and altarpieces, to the great monumental cycles of the high Middle Ages. If the holy wood was the medium of medieval memory, A Heritage of Holy Wood reveals the growth rings of fifteen centuries of imagery.


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The cross and the Eucharist in early Christianity : a theological and liturgical investigation
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ISBN: 9781108483230 1108483232 9781108716574 9781108673501 1108716571 1108673503 1108698425 1108605419 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Cross was present at the Eucharist in early Christianity as an idea, a gesture, and an object. Over time, these different actualizations of the quintessential symbol of Christianity have generated important questions about their meaning and function, among them: is the Eucharist a meal and/or a sacrifice? Can the sign of the Cross illuminate the absence of a Roman epiclesis? Is it pertinent -historically and theologically - to use an altar Cross? In this study, Daniel Cardó explores the relation between the Cross and the Eucharist. Offering a thorough and fresh reading of patristic and Roman liturgical texts, he identifies their emphases and common themes on the Cross and the Eucharist, and demonstrates their significance for the liturgical debates of recent decades.

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