University of Helsinki
Faculty of Theology
“These are the things I have noticed [in your draft for the Rules], my Most Honored Father. However, in the name of God, pay no attention to either my notes or my remarks. Instead, tell us to do what you believe God is asking of us. ---... more
An article on the rustic ideals in charity work and the possibilities the Daughters of Charity could offer lower-class women in seventeenth-century France. In Finnish, for the publication called Suurmiehistä rahvaannaisiin. Yksilö ja... more
--- [They shall have] for monastery only the houses of the sick and the place where the Superioress resides; for cell, a hired room; for chapel, the parish church; for cloister, the streets of the city; for enclosure, obedience ---.... more
“If the task is considered political, it seems like the men should undertake it… If it is regarded an act of charity, the women could undertake it in the manner they have assumed the other great and unpleasant tasks of charity ---.”... more
“These are the things I have noticed [in your draft for the Rules], my Most Honored Father. However, in the name of God, pay no attention to either my notes or my remarks. Instead, tell us to do what you believe God is asking of us. ---... more
In the history French seventeenth-century social history one name rises above others: that of saint Vincent de Paul (1580-1660, canonized 1737). The century was one of intensive religious revival especially for elite women who founded... more
--- [They shall have] for monastery only the houses of the sick and the place where the Superioress resides; for cell, a hired room; for chapel, the parish church; for cloister, the streets of the city; for enclosure, obedience ---.... more
... [T]he situation in Paris is so bad that Mademoiselle Le Gras does not have enough Sisters to care for the sick and the poor refugees in all the places where people are requesting them. Soup is prepared for them in a large number of... more
Samuel Pufendorf is known for his normative natural law philosophy, and particularly for his theory of sociability. This article concentrates on a topic that has received very little attention - his theory of the motivating character of... more
Ilmestyy teoksessa Haara, Heikki & Palmen, Ritva (toim.) Uskonto ja kamppailu tunnustamisesta. STKS. 2017
- by Heikki Haara
This book centres on Samuel Pufendorf’s (1632–1694) moral and political philosophy, a subject of recently renewed interest among intellectual historians, philosophers and legal scholars in the English-speaking world. Pufendorf’s... more
"Arguing From Silence" briefly overviews the main theoretical constructs used in the historiography of the emergence of Israel. From this discussion, methodological considerations related to historical reconstruction using the biblical... more
"Iranian-Judaean Interaction" argues that during the Achaemenid Empire there were significant potential locations where Judaean and Iranian groups could have interacted. Rather than seeking a definitive location for "influence", the... more