Die verband tussen die Christelike geloof en eensaamheid tydens laat-adolessensie by A. le Roux

“… The nature and extent of the phenomenon of loneliness together with a related variable like the Christian faith, needs further investigation in order to unravel their scope and multidimensionality. …”
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Konfrontacja ascetyki Hieronima ze Strydonu i Pelagiusza z Brytanii na podstawie wybranych dzieł by Anita Mularczyk-Budzan

“…Jerome’s asceticism was based on the allegorical reading and meditation of the Holy Scriptures, while Pelagius represented the moralistic approach to Bible and Christian life. Jerome postulated the way of Christian pilgrimage to God, where faithful tackling weaknesses by the grace of God and ascetic practice. …”
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‘O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth tremble before him’ (Psalm 96:9)

“…Movements such as the Sea of Faith, or Progressive Christianity attempt to hold on to Christian imagery and cultus while leaving open the question of whether the concept of God is any more than a human construction. …”
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La diaspora andalouse et le commerce des ports maghrébins (xie-xve siècle) by Dominique Valérian

“…In a Mediterranean trade largely controlled by European Christian merchants from the 12th century onwards, the Andalusians –Muslims, but also Jews– were an exception. …”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“… This essay examines the relationship between the Christian tradition of contemplation and social action. …”
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The inner reformation of the sciences: an ambiguity in the radically orthodox thought of John Milbank? by D. F. M. Strauss

“…Milbank contemplates the idea of a Christian sociology, by considering the church as a distinct society (altera civitas), but considers it to be silly to talk of a Christian mathematics. …”
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Interview with Professor Philippe Denis by Helené van Tonder

“…Over the past two decades, his research focused primarily on the history of indigenous Christianity in southern Africa, along with an interest in oral history. …”
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The Imagination in the Life and Thought of John Henry Newman by Terrence Merrigan

“…The Christian ‘idea’ can only be discerned to the degree that it comes to expression in a variety of historical forms. …”
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The theology of creation in Vito Mancuso’s Radical Theology by C. C. Simut

“…Mancuso’s concern to re-anchor Christian theology in the experience of today’s people drove him to affirm the fundamental importance of matter as source of everything. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“… Marcion of Synope has long been considered a heretic by all Christian churches. He is frequently grouped with the Gnostic trends of Early Christianity, although this is not entirely accurate. …”
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Tubular Duplication of the Midgut Presenting with Acute Abdomen and Hematochezia: A Case Report from Northern Tanzania by Ayesiga M. Herman, David Msuya, Mwemezi Kaino, Hilary Shilanaiman, Joachim Magoma, Christian Issangya, Jay Lodhia, Murad Tarmohamed, Jeremia Pyuza, Patric Amsi, Alex Mremi, Ronald Mbwasi, Nuru Letara

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In the place of sanctity. Religious eminence in Jewish tradition by Ugo Volli

“…The concept of holiness is among the religious innovations brought by Christianity. In Hebrew there is a word (kadòsh) that normally translates as holy, but its usage is noticeably different, as it applies mostly to deities or entities such as the Land of Israel or the Jewish people and rarely to people. …”
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For Better or Worse by Sinenhlanhla Sithulisiwe Chisale

“…Findings indicate that the pedagogies of the traditional and Christian premarital counselling are gendered in a way that promotes and justifies intimate wife abuse in marriage contexts complicating women’s struggle with GBV. …”
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Faith formation in the tension interplay of tools, processes and the course for social transformation by M Moyo, K.J. Pali

“…According to Astley (2018:16), in Christianity, faith formation is more than learning about Christ; it is about “learning” Christ. …”
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The returning dead: unconventional inhumations in Medieval Lithuania by Gintautas Vėlius

“… The paper analyses unconventional burials in Christian Lithuania in the 14th-17th centuries. The burials contain either headless or limbless bodies buried with face downwards or on their side; such inhumations are not to be attributed as occasional or entirely exceptive ones. …”
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La séparation des Églises et de l’État aux États-Unis : origines et évolution by Mokhtar BEN BARKA

“…Others are so worried that they set out to combat the Christian Right, seen as a menace to secularism and democracy.Contrary to the belief held by right-wing Evangelicals, the United States is not a Christian nation. …”
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Between Sartre and Ratzinger, or the Legacy of the “No Man’s” Revolution by Aleksander Bańka

“…The author shows that this revolution, inspired by Sartre’s existentialism and Marxism, had a profound impact on contemporary culture, challenging the traditional Christian understanding of man, God, and freedom. In response, Benedict XVI stressed the importance of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as the foundation of an authentic faith, the only real alternative to the ideology of absolute freedom, and proposed Christianity as the path to true freedom, underpinned by the love of God. …”
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Duck, R., Worship for the whole people of God. Vital worship for the 21st century by M. Laubscher

“…White’s influential textbook Introduction to Christian worship (Third Edition Revised and Expanded – 2000). …”
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Les représentations de l’Islam dans les imprimés en nahuatl au service de l’évangélisation du Mexique colonial (1575-1614) by Maxime Pluvinet

“…In the 16th and 17th centuries, missionaries in charge of converting the populations of colonial Mexico to Christianity included in their sermons and treatises recurring references to an age-old enemy of Christendom: Islam. …”
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Towards an Abrahamic ecumenism? The search for the universality of the divine mystery by C. van der Kooi

“… This contribution explores the notion of an Abrahamic ecumenism as proposed by Hans Küng and others in search for a way in which Islam, Judaism and Christianity can live peacefully together. It is argued, however, that to pursue a viable political pluralism, it is more promising for Christian theology to take into account the historical development of the image of God instead of an orientation on a common historical origin in Abraham. …”
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