His Body Will Appear in All of the Mirrors: Explaining Christian Doctrine to the Nahuas in the 1548 <i>Doctrina Christiana</i>
After the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the first groups of friars arrived in Mexico to Christianize the native inhabitants of Mesoamerica. This task was anything but easy, as explaining Christian doctrine to the Indigenous people posed both a linguistic and a theological challenge. The need to lear...
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MDPI AG
2023-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/12/1487 |