'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’ by Jacqueline Hylkema

“…The counterfeits of Jacob Cats’s Self-Stryt (1620) and the States Bible confirm that the authority of the States-General and the sense of official endorsement printing privileges added to a publication indeed played a role in the discourse of counterfeits in the Dutch Republic. …”
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Katechizm biblijny Kościoła kartagińskiego by Tomasz Kaczmarek

“…This book, composed of thirty Christological thesis together with corresponding biblical citations, is dedicated to “the mystery of Christ” (sacramentum Christi) understood as concise presentation of salvation economy where Christ is its centre and the interpretative key for the Bible. This image is that interesting because it is the only pre- Nicean Christology compendium of this type, which directly introduces us to theological thought preceding a very difficult for Christianity trinitian controversy. …”
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Christ-Haunted: Theology on The Road by Christina Bieber Lake

“…Far from being a borrowed and merely aesthetic authority, McCarthy’s work evokes the Bible in a way that forces the astute reader to return to it. …”
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Die belydenis van die kerk by J. Buitendag

“… The article contends that the doctrine of the church should rather be seen as telling something about the church than about the Bible. Different doctrines are thus the result and not the source of theology. …”
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Identity and community in South African congregations by W. J. Schoeman

“…The two surveys suggest that attenders prefer a private expression of their religion in which the Bible plays an important role. They have a strong bond with the congregation, but the preferred role of the congregation is to provide in the spiritual needs of the attenders. …”
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Pentacostalism & schisms in the Reformed Church in Zambia 1996-2001: contextual and identity changes by H. J. Hendriks, L. Soko

“…In the RCZ, this led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in 1999 and the Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) in 2001. …”
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The Character as Text in Philip Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Wendy Ribeyrol

“…L’idée de la vie d’un homme comme livre ou comme feuille de papier est fort ancienne, elle figure aussi bien dans la Bible que dans les livres d’emblèmes des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. …”
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“But how then shall I imitate thee, and/ Copie thy fair, though bloudie hand?”(“The Thanksgiving”, vv.15-16) by Guillaume Coatalen

“…His Temple is deliberately built almost exclusively on the Bible, which it quotes or glosses extensively. Second, the work belongs to the rich tradition of the imitation of Christ, which was still popular in the early modern age. …”
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MOSES’ MOTHER IN EXODUS 2:1-10 AND MOTHERS IN PERSONAL NAMES AMONG THE IGBO PEOPLE, SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA by M.J. Obiorah, N.C. Okafor

“… In cultures such as Ancient Israel and the Igbo people of South-eastern Nigeria, the qualities of women and  the essential roles they play in society are elucidated in various ways. The Hebrew Bible conveys these in narratives, while the Igbo people do so in female personal names. …”
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A DISTINCTIVE PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC by Marius Nel

“…Although there are specific identifiable emphases in a Pentecostal hermeneutics, it does not qualify to be called distinctive, and an ecumenical approach demands that the movement should function within the context of the wider Christian church and its history of reading and interpreting the Bible. …”
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Formacja nowych ewangelizatorów dla dzieła nowej ewangelizacji by Izabela Iwańska

“…The formation method was taken from the Bible. It consists of the formation of the disciples. …”
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Biblical literacy and transnational Mayan liberation movements by Roberto Domingo Toledo

“…This paper examines the central role of the Bible in the mobilisation of Mayan communities where the majority of members identify themselves as Christian as well as Mayan. …”
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The Reception of St Jerome in a Late- Medieval Sermon Collection by Johannes Herolt by Andrea Radošević

“… Church fathers were among the most cited authorities in the medieval sermons, right after the Bible. Their quotations were used in different ways – as an exegesis of the reading, as a commentary of a moral les­son, or as a strong argument for a particular statement. …”
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The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya by R. Muya

“… The Bible was a new phenomenon among African cultures that treasure the oral traditions governing their moral and spiritual life. …”
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Contemplation of the Body by Ivan Platovnjak

“…He argues that the Triune God wants to reveal Himself to every man, not only through the book of nature and the Bible, but also through his body, and that contemplation of his body can be of great help to him in this. …”
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Het boek Prediker: een verrassende en uitdagende stem in de Bijbel by H. Debel

“… As historical-critical exegesis has demonstrated that the Bible does not provide a readymade and unified answer to each and every actual question, the present study aims at highlighting the particular contribution of the book of Qohelet to the ‘library’ of biblical books. …”
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Biblical spirituality: an "other" reading (allègoria) by Kees Waaijman

“… This article discusses the communicative dimension and dialogical dynamic of a text, in order to illuminate the relationship of Biblical Spirituality with the Bible. From a pragmatic perspective on the polar tension between author, text and reader, the article reflects on the action of the author-text on the reader, and the action of the reader in relation to the text, as two strategies of reading. …”
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Taming Eschatology: The Case of Silja Walter OSB by Bernard Łukasz Sawicki, Chiara Tacchinardi

“…This series of poems is particu- larly representative for the poet’s work as it combines her monastic experience with her personal poetic reading of the Bible in the spirit of lectio divina. These two sourc- es give the analyzed poetry a particular theological quality, originally combining spiritual and dogmatic elements. …”
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Archetype of transformation in The Legend of Sleepers by Danilo Kiš by Drakulić-Kozić Nataša S.

“…Considering that the mythical subtext of the novelette 'The Legend of Sleepers' from the collection The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš has not been sufficiently analyzed in literary science, this paper deals with intertextual relations which this text has with the holy books - the Quran, the Talmud and the Bible. Special attention is given to the main motifs of death and resurrection, reviewing the temporal and spatial framework of narration. …”
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DIE BETROKKENHEID VAN KERK EN STAAT BY DIE BEVESTIGING VAN HUWELIKE MET ’N PERSPEKTIEF OP DRIE GEREFORMEERDE KERKORDES by P Strauss

“…The church should be involved, because a marriage should be “in Christ” and according to the principles of the Bible. In His covenant of grace as a key element of being a church, God uses marriage and family as his points of departure to relate to people. …”
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