Keel argues that the enduring belief that race comes from "nature" reflects the haunting influence of Christian intellectual history on the development of modern scientific thinking about human ancestry.2018-Keel-flyer-pdf

Felix III, who held the papal seat from 483-492, is called by several scholars "Rome's first aristocratic bishop." As the first elected pope after the fall of the last western emperor, his aristocratic origins would bestow a distinctly new status to the office of bishop of Rome on the eve of new challenges to his […]