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OLIVEIRA (Francisco Xavier de). REFLEXÕES de Felix Corvina de Arcos sobre a Tentativa Teológica de António Pereira. Coimbra. 1929. - OLIVEIRA (Francisco Xavier de) REFLEXÕES de Felix Corvina de Arcos sobre a Tentativa Teológica de António Pereira . Nova edição prefaciada por Eduardo Moreira. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1929. XXVI, 96 pp.; 175 mm. Reflections on religious controversy published under the pseudonym Felix Corvina de Arcos, an anagram of the name of its true author, the Knight of Oliveira (Francisco Xavier de Oliveira), a stratagem adopted to escape the vigilance of the Portuguese Inquisition, which had already condemned his Family, Historical Letters in 1742. The pamphlet brings together a foreword and five reflections, the first dealing with the episcopal thesis and the second with Lutheran or Anglican regalism, that is, the supremacy of civil power over the Church; the remaining reflections address the exaggeration of the papacy's honorary titles, the prohibition of books as a ”crime of ideas, ” the trafficking of relics and indulgences, imposed celibacy and the forced profession of nuns, and the cruelty of the Inquisition, defending the people's free access to the Scriptures. More accessible in writing than the erudite and Latinized *Tentativa Teológica* by Father António Pereira, with whom it shares the same regalist and reformist mentality, it fell into oblivion, like the latter, after the uproar of its prohibition by the Holy Office. In this new 1929 edition, Eduardo Moreira situates the work, alongside Tentativa , as an expression of the effort of the ”depressed soul of Portugal” in the eighteenth century, in favor of its religious liberation, integrating it into the regalist and reformist tradition that the preface writer himself claimed for Portuguese Protestantism of his time. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate