Addis Amba Mädhané Aläm: the Uncommon Troglodytic Heritage of Ethiopia by Tsegaye Ebabey DEMISSIE

“… Ethiopia is one of the few African countries that have preserved the antiquities of early and medieval Christianity. The cave church of Addis Amba Mädhané Aläm (the church of Saviour of the World), is one of the little known troglodytic heritages found in Mäqét, North Wällo. …”
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Les appels de Margaret Fell pour convertir les Juifs : de l’émancipation à la soumission chez la première femme Quaker by Frédéric Herrmann

“…Her attempts to convert the Jews to Christianity using the written word (she published several pamphlets on the subject in the 1650s and 1660s) symbolically placed her in an unprecedented position of authority and power, as they rested on the premise that women were the spiritual equals of men and could set about the task of converting the Jews as well as men could. …”
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The relevance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for New Testament interpretation with a bibliographical appendix by J. Frey

“…Neither was the Qumran community a prototype of Early Christianity, nor do Qumran texts reflect Early Christian history. …”
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Toward Inculturated Preaching by Michael E. Connors

“…This question is as old as Christianity, even though “culture” in its anthropological sense is a relatively recent development. …”
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Singularity, violence and universality in Derrida’s ethics: Deconstruction’s struggle with decisionism by Stocker Barry

“…In The Gift of Death, Derrida discusses the relationship between Paganism, Platonism, and Christianity through Patočka’s perspective, then returns to Judaism via Kierkegaard’s discussion of Abraham and Isaac. …”
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Covid-19, Congregational Worship, and Contestation over ‘Correct’ Islam in South Africa by Goolam Vahed

“…While the vast majority of people claim to be Christian, the extent to which they adhere strictly to Christianity is debatable. …”
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The comrade of Vaclovas Biržiška - Izidorius Kisinas by Žiedūnė Zaveckienė

“…It was claimed that he was a Jew and had only adopted Christianity when marrying a Lithuanian girl. In documents, he used to write that he was Lithuanian. …”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…The end of the drama—a combination of a mythical being after death with a sculpture of the Madonna carved in rock—is usually interpreted as the apotheosis of Christianity and the triumph of a new religion (and thus a new world order) over the pagan world. …”
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WİLLİAM MONTGOMERY WATT VE İLK DEVİR İSLAM TARİHİNE TARİHSELCİ BAKIŞ by Hasan Hüseyin Adalıoğlu

“…The major characteristic of the theory developed by William Montgomery Watt is that he maintained his belief in Christianity and adopted a historicist approach to Islamic history while he at the same time accepted the religious identity of the prophet Muhammed (Peace be upon Him) and declared that he had seen the message of the prophet as a mere revelation from God. …”
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Stosunek religii do nauki. Punkt widzenia prawosławnego by Henryk Paprocki

“… Polish astronomer Konrad Rudnicki suggested that the so-called Copernican revolution, with far-reaching consequences for western Christianity, was hardly noticed in orthodoxy. In this case, the domain of discoveries and scientific truths remained distinct from the strictly theological domain. …”
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Migrant churches and reverse mission: Missiological gaps and missionary trap by Phillip Musoni

“…Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary: The article is framed within the context of reverse mission, missiology, and the history of African Christianity. It contends that the African church should reassess its evangelistic strategies as it transcends national and international borders.…”
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Depiction of Religion and Colonialism in the Novel Houseboy By Ferdinand Oyono. by Ainembabazi, Desire

“…The protagonist, Toundi, becomes intrigued by Christianity and the Catholic Church, leading to a complex and conflicted relationship with the religion as he delves deeper into its teachings. …”
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Boekresensies by Acta Theologica

“…Encyclopedia of Early Christianity New York: Garland Publishing 1990 David Noel Freedman (Editor-in-Chief) 1992. …”
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Images et société au début du xie siècle : le décor sculpté de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire et Saint-Germain-des-Prés by Barbara Franzé

“…In Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in a double space shared by clerics and laymen, the prerogatives of each are characterized : to the first the management of the sacred and intermediation with the divine, to the sovereign the defense of Christianity. In the two examples studied, the ideological intentions pursued by the designers require the formulation of a new rhetoric, by the image. …”
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Poszanowanie wolności religijnej w prawodawstwie kościelnym by Dariusz Mazurkiewicz

“…Otto of Bamberg lead to the conclusion that the adoption of Christianity by the pagans was primarily the result of seduction by the truth of the Gospel, but the influence of secular power, which secured the mission of the missionary bishop, was also significant. …”
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Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts? by William J. Sullivan, Sarah Tsiang

“… The western and eastern branches of Christianity, broadly speaking Roman Catholicism (RC) and Eastern Orthodoxy (EO), have been formally separate for almost a millennium. …”
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The Power of Mimesis and the Mimesis of Power in the Production of Subjectivity by A. S. Kondakova

“…As a result, the strategies proposed by Foucault and Girard, such as self-care practices and radical Christianity, which are not formed by external power, do not transcend power or mimesis.…”
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THE MEASURE OF ALL GODS: RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF THE ANTIQUITY AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS by A. V. Halapsis

“…Modern "Romans" are trying to get rid of the last elements of religious naturalism, and modern "Greeks" are trying to preserve the Hellenic elements in Christianity. Patterns can be transformed, but the observational view will still be able to identify their lineage. …”
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Godsdiens en Christelike teologie in die skadu van menslike outonomie: wetenskapsfilosofiese verkenninge by W. J. Richards

“…Religion, they were convinced, could not be explained in terms of evidence derived from mere facts or disciplines operating on purely empirical levels within a one-dimensional world. Christianity, more particularly since modern times (dating from the 19th century especially), had to face up to rather extreme rationalistic views, more especially after the time of Barth. …”
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Nacionalita a konfese v politickém životě jagellonských Čech by Petr Vorel

“…This principle was considered fundamental in the creation of a so called “super-confessional Christianity”. The author applies the model on Vilém of Pernštejn (1437-1521), an aristocrat who used his wealth and exceptional political power in the country to form a significant precedent in terms of nationality and confession, fundamentally affecting contemporary social standards.  …”
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