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Roman writers and later Christian authors are the primary literary lenses through which Druids are known: Roman accounts emphasized Druid power and alleged human sacrifice (e.g., Julius Caesar, Tacitu...
The Catholic Church—and especially the papacy—played a central initiating and organizing role in the Crusades: Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade at Clermont in 1095 in response to a Byzantine...
Christian traditions treat biblical stoning in three broad ways: as a historical Mosaic penalty recorded in the Torah, as a legal practice that Jewish and early Christian communities constrained or su...
Catholic theologians and Church authorities distinguish genuine private revelations from psychological or fraudulent claims by a mix of doctrinal tests, empirical investigation, and prudential judgmen...