INSTRUMENTS OF GOVERNANCE IN THE INDIGENOUS USAKEDET SOCIETY, 1895 – 1977 by EDET EFIONG OKON

“… Before the advent of the colonial instrument of courts and Christianity, Usakedet people have developed home-made methods and instruments of indigenous administration of their society with the consciousness that no society could thrive in lawlessness, injustice and poor social standards. …”
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Transformations of the Evil Forest in the Swedish Television Series Jordskott by Souch Irina

“…I argue that through the contemporary reworking of the centuries-old Nordic mythology, Jordskott demonstrates how the aggressive powers of nature in Gothic narratives can no more be conventionally explained by referring to the pagan, pre-Christian beliefs, but need to be reconceived in light of the relentless environmental devastation brought about by humankind. …”
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Jan Kristián Swéerts-Sporck a František Girtler − na společné cestě mezi zbožností a ekonomickým zájmem by Veronika Čapská

“…The author argues that the grand tour undertaken in 1750−1752 by Johann Christian of Swéerts-Sporck (1729−1802) in company of his economic assistant Franz Girtler was essential for establishing a close tie between the young nobleman and his future prominent official. …”
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Paratextual framings of Psalm 72 and the shaping of interpretive possibilities by D. Davage

“…The effect of these paratextual activities is then traced over time, first in the Hebrew Bible, in Second Temple literature, in the New Testament, as well as in Christian and Jewish expositions. The article indicates various ways in which the tensions are resolved and how these interactions, in turn, generate new paratexts. …”
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Fakecraft by Paul Christopher Johnson

“…The essay then takes up a specific example of fakecraft and its prolific work, namely in early modern Christianity’s process of purification and self-definition through evaluations of demonic possession as ‘real’or ‘fake’, terms that were then applied to the west coast of Africa. …”
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Reading the Psalms historically. Antiochene exegesis and a historical reading of Psalm 46 by H. F. van Rooy

“…They were influenced in their approach by Aristotelian logic, by the Greek-Christian culture of their time and by the method propagated by Aristarch. …”
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Intolerance, Religious Lynchings and the Future of Indonesia by Andre Vltchek

“…Two days later, on February 8 in Temanggung, Central Java, a crowd stormed a local courthouse and vandalized three churches after a man – a former priest who allegedly insulted both Islam and Christianity in his pamphlet – was sentenced to five years in prison, the maximum sentence. …”
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TRANSLATING ??? IN JOB 2:9- A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH by G E Lier

“…in Job 2:9 in line with Christiane Nord’s Model of Literary Communication to demonstrate how early translators’ cognisance of the language and culture of the source text may have influenced the way they translated ??? …”
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« Je suis un catholique » : la mémoire spirituelle de Flaubert chez les critiques chrétiens de l’entre-deux-guerres by Marina Girardin

“…From Charles du Bos to Henri Guillemin, including Albert Thibaudet and François Mauriac, the articles that we have considered in this study constitute a collection of texts which correspond to one another and which, beyond the thorny question of the finality of Flaubert’s asceticism, are supported by the peculiar will to reshape Flaubert’s spiritual memory in order to restore a new image of a christian writer to posterity.…”
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Ravel heute by Theo Hirsbrunner

“…Acht schweizerische und französische Komponisten, die zwischen 1939 und 1975 geboren sind, wurden auf die Bedeutung der Musik Ravels für ihr eigenes Komponieren befragt (Marc-André Dalbavie, Walter Feldmann Allain Gaussin, Christian Henking, Jean-Luc Hervé, Philippe Manoury, Roger Tessier und Stefan Wirth). …”
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La terre, dernier élément de Charles Darwin by Michel Prum

“…Yet Darwin’s last opus was also a brilliant plea for the theory of the accumulation of small variations (drawing upon Lyellian uniformitarism) and for a new positioning of Man in the animal kingdom that departed from the old Judaeo-Christian tradition. It could be argued that the worm became Darwin’s efficient advocate who championed his views on evolution and anti-Creationism.…”
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Mysticism: a way of unknowing by C. E. T. Kourie

“…A short survey of this concept in some of the major religious traditions, together with an analysis of the place of apophasis in Christianity, brings this pertinent area of study into greater focus. …”
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Navigating Civic Agency and Civic Space Amid Authoritarian Realities in Myanmar: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Concept of Divine Mandate as Public Theology by Lap Yan Kung

“…It explores divine mandates as essential for protecting civic space, advocates for Christian discipleship as a means of civic agency, and sparks moments of possibility by recognizing the hidden God in times of suffering. …”
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The postfigurative Christ in Morley Callaghan's Such is my beloved by F. Hale

“…In this embodiment, Social Gospel aspects of Christianity come to the fore. …”
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Cardiac insufficiency in elderly patients. A non-solve problem. by Angel Julio Romero Cabrera

“…Cardiac insufficiency is a clinical syndrome that is known since ancient times – more than 2000 years – in the pre Christian civilisation as Egypt, Greece and Old Rome where the digital plant was used as a remedy for this disease. …”
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MISSION AS RECONCILIATION by A van de Beek

“…In this article, it is argued that it will be a great challenge for scholarly missiology and for the churches to accept this new paradigm, which involves a reconsideration of the basic paradigm of Christianity. …”
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Para uma compreensão da Clausura Monástica e Emparedamento enquanto fenómenos históricos e religiosos by Paula Barata Dias

“…In this article we seek the relations between the enclosure and the walling in as parts of a universal religious language and we explore the manifestations of self closure and desired walling in which took place in a particular moment of increasing ascetic and monastic mouvements of the history of Christianity. Far from being exhaustive in enumerating concrete cases of closure and walling in, we intent to present reasons for the progressive feminization of this phaenomenon well documented in the medieval world.…”
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About Galatians, apocalyptic and the switching of paradigms by Gys M. H. Loubser

“…Written against the background of modern day Christianity still grappling with law and the old paradigm two thousand years into new creation, this article hopes to share some of Paul’s vigour toward understanding the time we live in as post-law. …”
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Salvation according to the Heidelberg Catechism by L. Joubert

“…In the light of different contexts this article looks at the questions in the Heidelberg Catechism concerning the explanation of our salvation and reads this judicial model against other Christian understandings in the Catholic, Baptist and Orthodox tradition. …”
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Pengembangan Komik Instagram “Toomis Booncis” Bertemakan Leisure bagi Remaja by Agnes Delicia Husada, Christian Anggrianto