Rady Roldán-Figueroa
Biographic Data
| ID | 453874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rady Roldán-Figueroa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rady |
| FAMILY NAME | Roldán-Figueroa |
| SIGNATURE | ROLDÁN-FIGUEROA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8183-4418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Quaker Roots in Jim Corbett’s Nonviolent Sanctuary
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This article will reveal significant parallels between Jim Corbett’s (1933-2001) theory of nonviolent direct action, which he called civil initiative, and the pacifist theoretical work conducted by Quaker figures associated with the Pacifist Research Bureau (PRB). Based in Philadelphia, the PRB operated from 1942-49. The Quaker legal scholar Harrop A. Freeman led the Bu…
The Requerimiento and the Theological “Knot” of European Expansionism
Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1450–1524) was a very influential jurist in the court of Queen Isabella I of Spain (r. 1474-1504). In the Libellus de insulis oceanis (1512), he defended the right of the Spanish crown to wage war and enslave the Amerindians. The argument presented here elucidates that he did not rely on the Aristotelian theory of the natural slave, illustrates how the Dominican protest of December 1511 became embroiled in the “Plei…
Empire of Portland Cement, Concrete Blocks, and Specialty Shingles
The article examines the close collaboration between Protestant missionaries and expatriate American construction entrepreneurs in the early 1900s in Puerto Rico. The construction work done by the Czech American architect Antonin Nechodoma (1877–1928), the builder Frank Bond Hatch (1871–1925), and Protestant missionaries represent an instance of this collaboration, which led to the adoption of Portland cement products in the construction of churc…
The Transatlantic Las Casas
The Transatlantic Las Casas demonstrates the vitality of Lascasian studies. An impressive ensemble of scholars spanning the fields of Latin American studies, philosophy, theology, anthropology, law, literary criticism, and ethnohistory illuminate the complex intellectual web surrounding the controversial figure of Bartolomé de las Casas. This volume offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies by L…
Religious nationalism, racism, and raza hispánica (“Hispanic race”) in Constantino Bayle’s, S.J. (1882–1953) missiology (A publication history approach)
This article focuses on the career of the Jesuit priest, Constantino Bayle, as a historian of Spanish Catholic missions and promoter of state-sponsored arrangements that institutionalized nationalist religious historiography. He encoded religious nationalism and racist categories in academic discourse and terminology, elevating in this way racist assumptions and renewed imperialist aspirations to the level of official historiography. The article …
Spiritualité, Spirituality, and Espiritualidad
This article offers a corrective to the widely held idea that the modern concept of spirituality is traceable to the seventeenth century French notion of spiritualité . Instead, the argument is made that the sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish terms spiritual and spiritualidad are earlier expressions of the modern concept of spirituality . The article opens with an examination of the place of spirituality in the academic study of religion a…
The Martyrs of Japan
In The Martyrs of Japan, Rady Roldán-Figueroa examines the role that Catholic missionary orders played in the dissemination of accounts of Christian martyrdom in Japan. The work combines several historiographical approaches, including publication history, history of missions, and "new" institutional history. The author offers an overarching portrayal of the writing, printing, and circulation of books of 'Japano-martyrology.' The book is organized…
Βαπτίζω “Signifies to Dip or to Wash, but Never to Sprinkle”
The article argues that Baptists, General and Particular, linked the practice of immersion or dipping with a lay and anti-clerical conception of Christian ministry. Moreover, it claims that Baptist leaders who were involved in the introduction of dipping saw the practice as a sign of lay supremacy. The argument traces the Baptist laical and anti-clerical conception of Christian ministry by examining relevant texts by Baptists leaders such as Thom…
The Mystical Theology of Luis de la Puente
Tomás Carrascón, Anti-Roman Catholic Propaganda, and the Circulation of Ideas in Jacobean England
The article examines the figure of Tomás Carrascón de las Cortes y Medrano (1595–c. 1633) and his pamphleteering activity during the second decade of the seventeenth century in England. A close look at his anti-Catholic pamphlets, Hispanus conversus (London, 1623), Scrutamini Scripturas: The Exhortation of a Spanish Converted Monke (London, 1624), and Miracles Unmasked (London, 1625), reveals his astute use of Spanish and Portuguese Catholic sour…
Religious Propaganda and Textual Hybridity in Tomás Carrascón's 1623 Spanish Translation of the Jacobean Book of Common Prayer
Tomas Carrascon de las Cortes y Medrano was among the many Spanish evangelicals who were forced to leave Spain for matters of conscience during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the same way as his best-known predecessors, Cipriano de Valera and Antonio del Corro, Carrascon found refuge in England and like del Corro, he became a clergyman of the Anglican Church. Like most of his Spanish coreligionists, however, his life story is virtual…
John Calvin and Roman Catholicism
Randall C. Zachman, ed. John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique and Engagement, Then and Now. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic and Brazos Press, 2008. 208 pp. index. $26.99. ISBN: 978–0–8010–3597–5. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin
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Calvin’s Theology of the Psalms
Herman J Selderhuis . Calvin’s Theology of the Psalms. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought . Grand Rapids . Baker Academic . 2007 . ISBN: 978-0-8010-3166-3 . - Volume 61 Issue 1
"Filius Perditionis"
This article examines the propagandistic use of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 in five New Testament Spanish translations (Enzinas, 1543; Pérez, 1556; Reina, 1569; and Valera, 1596 and 1602). The article advances the notion of the Hispanicization of the biblical text, a cultural transaction situated in a context of conflict. Drawing on the insights of Translation Studies, specifically the work of Lawrence Venuti, it is argued that the Hispanicization of the…
Espirituación
Saint Juan de Ávila a joué un rôle majeur dans la réforme catholique espagnole. Son programme de réforme s'est concentré principalement sur la formation morale du clergé catholique. Toutefois, Ávila a aussi envisagé une réforme dépassant les limites de l'institution ecclésiastique, inspirée par le concept médiéval du corpus christianum. La réforme, selon Ávila, incluait en effet l'ensemble de la société, c'est-à-dire ses membres aussi bien que sa…
The Transatlantic Las Casas
The Transatlantic Las Casas demonstrates the vitality of Lascasian studies. An impressive ensemble of scholars spanning the fields of Latin American studies, philosophy, theology, anthropology, law, literary criticism, and ethnohistory illuminate the complex intellectual web surrounding the controversial figure of Bartolomé de las Casas. This volume offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies by L…
Espirituación
Saint Juan de Ávila a joué un rôle majeur dans la réforme catholique espagnole. Son programme de réforme s'est concentré principalement sur la formation morale du clergé catholique. Toutefois, Ávila a aussi envisagé une réforme dépassant les limites de l'institution ecclésiastique, inspirée par le concept médiéval du corpus christianum. La réforme, selon Ávila, incluait en effet l'ensemble de la société, c'est-à-dire ses membres aussi bien que sa…
"Filius Perditionis"
This article examines the propagandistic use of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 in five New Testament Spanish translations (Enzinas, 1543; Pérez, 1556; Reina, 1569; and Valera, 1596 and 1602). The article advances the notion of the Hispanicization of the biblical text, a cultural transaction situated in a context of conflict. Drawing on the insights of Translation Studies, specifically the work of Lawrence Venuti, it is argued that the Hispanicization of the…
Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Calvin’s Theology of the Psalms
Herman J Selderhuis . Calvin’s Theology of the Psalms. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought . Grand Rapids . Baker Academic . 2007 . ISBN: 978-0-8010-3166-3 . - Volume 61 Issue 1
John Calvin and Roman Catholicism
Randall C. Zachman, ed. John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique and Engagement, Then and Now. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic and Brazos Press, 2008. 208 pp. index. $26.99. ISBN: 978–0–8010–3597–5. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Religious Propaganda and Textual Hybridity in Tomás Carrascón's 1623 Spanish Translation of the Jacobean Book of Common Prayer
Tomas Carrascon de las Cortes y Medrano was among the many Spanish evangelicals who were forced to leave Spain for matters of conscience during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the same way as his best-known predecessors, Cipriano de Valera and Antonio del Corro, Carrascon found refuge in England and like del Corro, he became a clergyman of the Anglican Church. Like most of his Spanish coreligionists, however, his life story is virtual…
Tomás Carrascón, Anti-Roman Catholic Propaganda, and the Circulation of Ideas in Jacobean England
The article examines the figure of Tomás Carrascón de las Cortes y Medrano (1595–c. 1633) and his pamphleteering activity during the second decade of the seventeenth century in England. A close look at his anti-Catholic pamphlets, Hispanus conversus (London, 1623), Scrutamini Scripturas: The Exhortation of a Spanish Converted Monke (London, 1624), and Miracles Unmasked (London, 1625), reveals his astute use of Spanish and Portuguese Catholic sour…
The Mystical Theology of Luis de la Puente
Βαπτίζω “Signifies to Dip or to Wash, but Never to Sprinkle”
The article argues that Baptists, General and Particular, linked the practice of immersion or dipping with a lay and anti-clerical conception of Christian ministry. Moreover, it claims that Baptist leaders who were involved in the introduction of dipping saw the practice as a sign of lay supremacy. The argument traces the Baptist laical and anti-clerical conception of Christian ministry by examining relevant texts by Baptists leaders such as Thom…
Spiritualité, Spirituality, and Espiritualidad
This article offers a corrective to the widely held idea that the modern concept of spirituality is traceable to the seventeenth century French notion of spiritualité . Instead, the argument is made that the sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish terms spiritual and spiritualidad are earlier expressions of the modern concept of spirituality . The article opens with an examination of the place of spirituality in the academic study of religion a…
The Martyrs of Japan
In The Martyrs of Japan, Rady Roldán-Figueroa examines the role that Catholic missionary orders played in the dissemination of accounts of Christian martyrdom in Japan. The work combines several historiographical approaches, including publication history, history of missions, and "new" institutional history. The author offers an overarching portrayal of the writing, printing, and circulation of books of 'Japano-martyrology.' The book is organized…
Religious nationalism, racism, and raza hispánica (“Hispanic race”) in Constantino Bayle’s, S.J. (1882–1953) missiology (A publication history approach)
This article focuses on the career of the Jesuit priest, Constantino Bayle, as a historian of Spanish Catholic missions and promoter of state-sponsored arrangements that institutionalized nationalist religious historiography. He encoded religious nationalism and racist categories in academic discourse and terminology, elevating in this way racist assumptions and renewed imperialist aspirations to the level of official historiography. The article …
Empire of Portland Cement, Concrete Blocks, and Specialty Shingles
The article examines the close collaboration between Protestant missionaries and expatriate American construction entrepreneurs in the early 1900s in Puerto Rico. The construction work done by the Czech American architect Antonin Nechodoma (1877–1928), the builder Frank Bond Hatch (1871–1925), and Protestant missionaries represent an instance of this collaboration, which led to the adoption of Portland cement products in the construction of churc…
The Transatlantic Las Casas
The Transatlantic Las Casas demonstrates the vitality of Lascasian studies. An impressive ensemble of scholars spanning the fields of Latin American studies, philosophy, theology, anthropology, law, literary criticism, and ethnohistory illuminate the complex intellectual web surrounding the controversial figure of Bartolomé de las Casas. This volume offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies by L…
Quaker Roots in Jim Corbett’s Nonviolent Sanctuary
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This article will reveal significant parallels between Jim Corbett’s (1933-2001) theory of nonviolent direct action, which he called civil initiative, and the pacifist theoretical work conducted by Quaker figures associated with the Pacifist Research Bureau (PRB). Based in Philadelphia, the PRB operated from 1942-49. The Quaker legal scholar Harrop A. Freeman led the Bu…
The Requerimiento and the Theological “Knot” of European Expansionism
Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1450–1524) was a very influential jurist in the court of Queen Isabella I of Spain (r. 1474-1504). In the Libellus de insulis oceanis (1512), he defended the right of the Spanish crown to wage war and enslave the Amerindians. The argument presented here elucidates that he did not rely on the Aristotelian theory of the natural slave, illustrates how the Dominican protest of December 1511 became embroiled in the “Plei…
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