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Article: The idea of a Christian commonwealth. (includes bibliography)
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- Commonweal
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- November 6, 1992
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It is well known that three important events happened in the year 1492: the fall of Granada, the last Moslem territory in the Iberian peninsula, to the Spanish Latin Christian monarchy; the expulsion of the professing members of the Jewish religious community; and the first transatlantic voyage of Christopher Columbus. The deadline for exodus of the Jews and the beginning of the Columbian voyage occurred only one day apart. Granada fell half a year earlier. Five hundred years later it is worth contemplating the historical significance of these events and their possible meaning.
The Moslems--an ethnically mixed group of Arabs, various Near Eastern peoples, and ...
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