Sacramentum Mundi Online
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Subject: Religious Studies
Edited by: Karl Rahner with Cornelius Ernst and Kevin Smyth.
Advisor for the online edition: Karen Kilby, Durham University
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Sacramentum Mundi Online is the online edition of the famous six volume English reference work in Catholic Theology, edited (in 1968-1970) by Karl Rahner, one of the main Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology was originally published by Herder Verlag, and is now available online at Brill.
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Avignon Exile
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Avignon, a small university town and bishopric, under the Counts of Provence, became the residence of the Popes in 1309, which it was to remain for nearly seventy years. The change was not very startling. Two general councils had recently been held at Lyons, and four of the Popes had been French. The change, inspired by the hope of reconciling France and England for a crusade, by the over-attachment of Pope and Cardinals to their own country, and by the chaos in the Papal States, was not at firs…
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