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Byzantium, Catholicism, The Papacy

Francis Dvornik on Canon XXVIII of Chalcedon

Nicholas / January 4, 2021

The Council of Chalcedon was convened in A.D. 451 in order to combat the heresy of Monophysitism.  While Nestorianism – condemned at the previous Council of Ephesus twenty years prior and historically attributed to Nestorius – held that Christ is…

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Catholicism, Spain, The Crusades

Political Polarization at the Dawn of the Spanish Civil War

Nicholas / December 23, 2020

In his monograph on the Spanish Civil War, Stanley Payne dedicates a chapter to what he calls “the breakdown of democracy”, wherein he narrates the unravelling of the Spanish Second Republic.  In it, he includes a number of citations from…

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Catholicism, Spain, The Crusades

Crusading Ideology and the Spanish Civil War: The Persistence of an Idea

Nicholas / December 15, 2020

In Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, there is a scene where a man who has been detained by the military for hunting rabbits in the woods and his adult…

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Catholicism, The Papacy

Rome, Babylon, and 1 Peter 5:13

Nicholas / August 9, 2020

In wrapping up his First Epistle, the Apostle Peter makes a cryptic reference to his location, stating that, “The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you: and so doth my son Mark.”[1]  The “Mark” referenced here…

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al-Andalus, Catholicism, Islam, The Crusades

Reconquest, Crusade, and the “Llibre dels Fets”

Nicholas / August 2, 2020

In his broad survey of the crusading movement, Jonathan Riley-Smith paid homage to the Iberian monarchs James I of Aragon and Fernando III of Castile, referencing their military success in the thirteenth-century as well as the fact that “this extraordinary…

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Catholicism, Spain, The Papacy

Some Musings on Papal Infallibility

Nicholas / August 1, 2020

In his work Innocent III and the Crown of Aragon: The Limits of Papal Authority, Damian Smith shares the words that Giovanni Capocci is supposed to have said to that Pope: ‘Your words are God’s words, but your works are…

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Catholicism, Protestantism

Did St. Thomas Aquinas Believe that the Virgin Mary was a Sinner?

Nicholas / January 2, 2020

I recently came across an article entitled, What is the difference between Mariology and Mariolatry?, attributed to the late Reformed Theologian, R.C. Sproul.[1]  In it, the author says the following: “Thomas [Aquinas] saw that Mary’s Son was also Mary’s Savior…

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Book Reviews, Protestantism, The United States

Book Review: Church in the Wild

Nicholas / December 13, 2019

Grainger, Brett Malcolm.  Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America.  Harvard University Press.  Cambridge, 2019.  Reviewed by: Nicholas Gulda Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America seeks to revise the historical record regarding the attitude towards nature taken…

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Catholicism, Islam

Sahih Muslim and the Immaculate Conception

Nicholas / December 9, 2019

This past summer, I was reading Jessica Coope’s monograph on the Martyrs of Córdoba.  While discussing the religious climate in the ninth-century capital of al-Andalus, she says the following: “…[B]y the ninth century a hadith was generally accepted which states…

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al-Andalus, Spain, The Crusades

Visigoth Identity in the Trastámara Dynasty

Nicholas / September 2, 2019

[Note: This post is derived from a term paper that I was assigned in a class on Islamic Spain, where I was tasked with writing a quasi pre-thesis prospectus on topics that I might want to pursue as a Master’s…

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Hello and Welcome! My name is Nicholas Gulda and you have landed at my blog. Here you will find posts mostly dealing with the topics of history and religion. I have taught Spanish and History at the High School level for 10 years in the Archdiocese of Detroit. I am currently working on my Master's in History, including a thesis focusing on crusading and James I of Aragon. In general, I am...

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