La Représentation de la montagne dans la littérature anglaise d’inspiration religieuse au XVIIe siècle by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…This is notoriously the case throughout the Bible in both the Ancient and the New Testaments, although some ambivalence can be identified in the symbolic value of the mountain which proves to be either a place of divine revelation or of spiritual contest. The Christian mystics down from Gregory of Nyssa to John of the Cross take this double dimension on board. …”
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"And Africa will be saved!"? Nadenke oor die kerk, die sending en die nood van Sub-Sahara-Afrika by P. Verster

“… Livingstone (1813-1873) with his emphasis on “Christianity, civilisation, commerce” had high expectations that Western influence would lead to total new conditions in Africa and the end of slave trade. …”
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Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors by A.M. Coates, J. Kunnuji

“… Both Tutu and Bonhoeffer embraced conviviality as an attribute of Christian life, not only as theory, but also in practice. …”
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De l’image à l’imaginaire médiéval by Philippe Walter

“…While reconstituting a brief Image’s history, from the dawn of platonism, in Ancient Greece, up to the consolidation of Christianity, this text shall address the formation of a medieval imaginary, grounding on the affirmation of sensible reason a thought that not only uses concepts but also mobilizes affects. …”
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Learning from Black Theology by Basil Moore

“… Black Theology had a profound effect on the religious, especially Christian scene in South Africa in the late 1960, 1970s and 1980s. …”
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Religiöse Spuren im Alltag by Matthias Werner

“… Acronyms, songs, advertisements, movies, television series, comic strips, memes or even sports news: Traces of Christian symbols, sayings, or references can be found in numerous places and contexts. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…This paper will analyze the structure of these chronicles, their contextual history, and the particular rhetoric they engaged in as they presented the Christianization of the inhabitants of the Philippines under their religious jurisdiction. …”
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Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…While Hardy’s support of paganism has been much debated, the comparison between these two novels shows that everything tends towards an unambiguous praise of paganism, which appears as a possible alternative to Christianity. Hardy reads paganism as a form of pantheism and ethics based on ‘Nature’s Law’, which matches his Darwinian view of nature. …”
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Voorveronderstellings in die hantering van die verhouding tussen Ou en Nuwe Testament. 'n Beskrywing na aanleiding van Friedrich Baumgärtel by S. J. P. K. Riekert

“…The Bible as canon has authority for the Christian believer. 2. The Bible or Canon comprises two Testaments. 3. …”
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Divine hiddenness, the melancholic self, and a pandemic spirituality by R. Venter

“…The state of insecurity has become a new horizon for doing Christian theology, and the new experience makes it inevitable that the spiritual implications be explored. …”
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Liberative Black theology: a case study of race in theological education by M. Naidoo

“…The new interracial relationships that are created in religious organisations can become a model of social cohesion for South African society. However, Christian organisations are structured in patriarchal and hierarchical ways with their authoritarianism; hence, the roots of oppression lie deeper. …”
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Catherine of Siena's wisdom on discernment and her reception of scripture by Diana L. Villegas

“… Catherine of Siena’s wisdom on discernment represents a significant development in the history of this essential Christian theme. Her teaching is the fruit of personal wisdom rather than formal study as she was an uneducated lay woman in fourteenth century Italy. …”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts by Estelle Alma Maré

“…Even during his years as an apprentice El Greco’s art is proof that he aspired to the highest humanly accessible values exemplified by Renaissance artistic theory, humanism and Christian spirituality — all of which later came to fruition in an unprecedented original combination in Toledo, Spain, where he settled permanently in 1577. …”
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The architecture of the church of St. Demetrius in New Belgrade (1998-2001): A new element of the city's identity by Aćimović Emilija

“…The time of its creation was marked by a renewal of Orthodox Christian identity and the need for a greater number of new parish churches, especially within settlements built devoid of them during Socialist Yugoslavia. …”
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EMPIRE, TRINITY, AND IRONY: RHETORIC AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION by Rian Venter

“…A trinitarian naming of God was entangled with empire already at an early stage of Christianity. It was simultaneously implicated by and subversive of empire. …”
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Pletivo života: Teologicko-misiologické implikácie jednej metafory by Pavol Bargár

“…Furthermore, theologically rooted anthropologies accentuate yet another type of relationship, namely, one between a human being and the transcendent reality that has in Christian tradition been referred to as God. Following from this fundamental point of departure this article seeks to explore two main questions. …”
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Zu den ökologischen Metaphern bei Paulus by Andrzej Najda

“…Paul makes use of them when speaks of the reality, the nature and the tasks of the Christian community (e.g.: Rom 7,4ff.; 9,21; 1 Cor 3,9), when he wants to describe his missionary activity or to express his apostolic consciousness (e.g.: 1 Cor 3,6; 3,10; 2 Cor 10,8; 13,10).…”
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Calvin and other religions by P. C. Potgieter

“…In this article his views on true and false religion, non-Christian faiths, the uniqueness of Christ as Mediator and Redeemer, and universalism is discussed from the perspective not only of his Institutes, but also of his Commentaries, Tracts and Treatises and Letters. …”
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L’éducation spirituelle ou l’autre de la pédagogie ? by Philippe Filliot

“…Research developments, in a multi-referential way, concern four ways, considered from a pedagogic point of view: yoga, Chinese wisdoms, zen Buddhism, and Christian religion. Our hypothesis is that there is, in this spiritualities which are in the same time dissimilar and coherent, a specific philosophy of education -even though there is no such philosophy yet – that remains to be updated. …”
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Życie i dzieło Marcina Lutra a spór wokół tez i narodzin Reformacji by Wojciech Miedwid

“…Luther and his struggle with visible religious abuses didn’t have to end in a split in the Church, because the reform movement was meant to be a renewal of Christianity.…”
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