Isten első szava az Újvilágban. A millenarizmus és az univerzális monarchia összekapcsolódása
God’s First Words in the New World: Millenarianism, Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Isle of La Española in 1493

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the ideological background of and the motives for early Spanish exploratory journeys to the New World. It also focuses on the process that lead to Pope Alexander VI, born Rodrigo Borja of Valencia, former apostolic nuncio for the Spanish kingdoms, issuing the papal bull Inter caetera and resulted in establishing the first church for the indigenous peoples of the colonized Americas. The paper also undertakes a detailed exploration of the hardships that the first, temporarily assigned Christian missionaries had to face, with a particular focus on the conflict that arose as a result of the insurmountable obstacles caused by Columbus, leading to Vicar Apostolic Fr. Bernal Boyl abandoning the isle of Hispaniola. In addition, the paper is concerned with the royalist propaganda of the Spanish Monarchy, which accompanied the evangelization of pagan settlements in a land that had previously been unfamiliar with Christian teaching.

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