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The Conversos : A Theological Approach

1985; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 62; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1475382852000362039

1469-3550

John Edwards,

Religious and Theological Studies

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. This article is based on a paper which was first delivered to the Annual Meeting of Historians of Medieval Spain, at St Aidan's College, Durham, on 25 September 1982. The author is grateful to the members of that assembly, and also to members of the postgraduate seminar at Westfield College, London, for their constructive criticism. 2. Acts 2; 6:15. 3. Ina Willi-Plein and Thomas Willi, Glaubensdolch und Messiasbeweis. Die Begegnung von Judentum, Christentum und Islam im 13.Jahrhundert in Spanien (Neukirchen-Fruyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1980). Antonio Pacios López, La disputa de Tortosa, 2 vols. (Madrid-Barcelona: CSIC, 1957), passim. 4. Willi-Plein and Willi, Glaubensdolch, 23–78. 5. 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