Gentilitas, peccatum y humanitas en el sermón XX de Máximo de Turín (…398-…423). Traducción y comentario

We have held in previous papers that Maximus of Turin (…398- …423) resorted to the terms gentilitas and paganismus in order to allude to two entities that were not only different, but even more, opposed in some fundamental characteristics. Indeed, gentilitas referred to individuals that had not known of Christianism yet but still conserved the possibility of becoming Christians and thus could still obtain salvation, whereas paganismus referred to those who had known of Christianism but decided to reject it, deserving eternal death. The aim of this paper is to go in depth in the knowledge of the meaning that Maximus attributed to the term gentilitas through the analysis of his sermon XX and the peculiar relationship he established there between gentilitas , peccatum and humanitas.