... (Stewart 35). For example, many leading church and governmental dignitaries in the 15th century, including the family of King Ferdinand, who unified the country, could trace their ancestry back to people with Jewish blood (Bachrach 45). The new Christians also had the support of Pope Nicholas, who, in the Humani Generis Enemicus, denounced the idea of excluding Christians from office simply because of their blood origins ... to extirpation [rooting out] of heresy por via de fuego [by way of fire]" (qtd.in Stewart 42) the Inquisition would begin. Pedro Sarmiento, Alfonso de Spina, and T...

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... shows an awareness that there is now a distinction made between the repentant and the stubborn. In Luke 20:18 those who fall on the stone are broken to pieces in repentance, but the one on whom the stone falls is crushed in condemnation at the end. This theme is reiterated in Acts when Peter speaks to Men of Israel (Acts 3:21-23) about Christ and warns that ... , not from any ability to be approved by keeping the law (7:53). Inability to keep the law was, afterall, the problem all along! Luke fully acknowledges the necessity to maintain Torah in order for the Church to continue, but it i...

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