Poules et poulets entre métaphores et realia dans la prédication et les exempla du Moyen Âge by Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu

“…These texts also shed a light on its place in the moralized naturalist knowledge, inspired by Bestiaries and finally the extreme allegorization of the hen and the kitchen used to represent Virgin Mary, the Christ or even God, in some sermons and exempla.…”
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Discernment in the Letter to the Galatians by D. F. Tolmie

“…After a brief overview of some approaches to discernment, three core elements of discernment are identified, namely reflection, choice and one’s relationship to God. Taking these elements as a point of departure, references to discernment in the following passages in the letter are investigated: 2:1-10; 2:11-21; 3:1-5 and 5:12-6:10. …”
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'n Eksegetiese ondersoek na die teologiese inhoud van Sefanja 1:7-13 by SD Snyman

“…The conclusion reached is that this percope wants to highlight religious indifference on the part of the people of God. …”
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BACON VE VICO'DA İLÂHÎ VE ÎNSANÎ BİLGİ by Sema Önal Akkaş

“…Bacon asserted that knowledge of nature could be gained, but for Vico it cannot. Granted that God created Nature and He knows it perfectly. But human beings can only know their deeds inasmuch as they create them. …”
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The Metempiricism of Margins: Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge by Toyin Falola

“…Contrary to the man-confining adage of “cut your coat according to your cloth/size,” the autobiography of Professor Aṣiwaju has exemplified that the Supreme God cuts and designs coat without the delimitations or regard of one’s size or cloth. …”
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Niqmat Yhwh: vraag- of uitroepteken achter het bijbelse Godsbeeld? by HGL Peels

“… Graag voldoe ek aan het vriendelijke verzoek van de redactie om in een artikel een samevatting te geven van die belangrijkste resultaten van die studie, waarop ik in Mei 1992 aan de Theologische Universiteit van de Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland te Apeldoorn promovverde: De wraak van God. De beteknis van de wortel NQM en die functie van de NQM-teksten in het kader van die oudtestamentische Godsopenbaring (Zoetermeer, 1992). …”
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The "first Deborah" - Genesis 35:8 in the literary and theological context by F. Olojede

“…However, the analysis of the verse in its literary and theological context in this article shows that it has been strategically placed in the narrative to underscore, among other things, the important role of Deborah in the Bethel tradition and the Jacob Cycle, as well as the subtle pointer to the fact that little people also have a place in the overall narrative of God’s people. …”
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Ipotesi per una contestualizzazione dell’Hypnos del Prado by Graziella Becatti

“…Until the nineteenth century, the statue of Hypnos held by the Prado Museum was thought to represent the Roman god Mercury. Its provenance is unknown, although occasional sixteenthcentury documents make reference to the existence of the masterpiece within Renaissance collections of Roman antiquities. …”
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THE SPIRIT, JUSTICE AND BEAUTY?

“…Firstly, I argue for the theologically important relation between justice and beauty; secondly, that the Spirit of God is the Spirit both of “justice” and of “beauty”; thirdly, that a theology of the Spirit further defines “justice” and “beauty” and allows for a deepened understanding of both; and fourthly, that a theology of the Spirit allows us to understand the ambiguities with regards to these differentiated themes – and therefore highlights not only the importance of the interrelation between “beauty” and “justice” – but, I argue, is this interrelation. …”
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The spiritual mentality profile of female pietists on the South African frontier, 1750-1860 by A. W. G. Raath

“…Such a  reconstruction of the religious mentality profile of pietistic women on the frontier reveals a number of important aspects for understanding their spiritual life: self-awakenings and conversions; self-purification; self-illumination and mystically tainted experiences; recollection and the experience of quiet; meditation, contemplation, ecstasy and rapture; spiritual desertion, and abandonment of the soul and the unitive life with God in Christ. …”
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Psalm 22 LXX in Origen’s commentary on the Song of Songs by P.B. Decock

“…The Targum focuses on God’s protective presence in Israel’s history and looks forward to the salvation to come. …”
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Congregational vitality – a perspective from Galatians by F. Tolmie

“…The following aspects that might be relevant are identified and discussed: 1. God’s calling as the point of departure; 2. The centrality of the gospel; 3. …”
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Forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa by George A Lotter

“…The author concludes that there is a real need for thoroughgoing study of and application to this crucial matter in post-apartheid South Africa but in the end forgiveness can only be attained as a "transcendent gift" from God. …”
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„Zjevení Božího hněvu.“ Poznámky k výkladu Ř 1,18–32 by Jan Roskovec

“…The moral judgments that Paul makes in Romans 1 must be interpreted in context, i.e. in light of the intent that Paul follows throughout the section on “the revelation of the wrath of God.” In a kind of black-and-white pattern, he describes human condition of need, the core of which he sees in the erroneous substitution of the created for the Creator, as a result of which man comes into conflict with himself. …”
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Obhajoba oprávněného vzdoru vůči svrchovaným vládcům v díle Christophera Goodmana by Miroslav Beneš

“…Christopher Goodman was well-known thanks to his critical work ’How Superior Powers Ought to Be Obeyed by Their Subjects and Wherein They May Lawfully by God’s Word Be Disobeyed and Resisted’. John Knox and Christopher Goodman were the most critical authors of their age. …”
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Ovide, Flaubert, Proust : la remise du fuseau d'Arachné by Edi Zollinger

“…Continuing Flaubert’s weaving, Proust produces the voluptuous tissue, which he presents in a competition against Sainte-Beuve, the god of the nineteenth century’s literary critique, whom Proust wants to dethrone.…”
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Proces nawrócenia się Abrahama w interpretacji Filona z Aleksandrii by Mateusz Wyrzykowski

“…According to Philo, building a relationship between God and Abraham required proper preparation. First, he gave up worshiping the gods, and then he discovered that the world is material and spiritual. …”
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Towards an Abrahamic ecumenism? The search for the universality of the divine mystery by C. van der Kooi

“…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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The Popes and the Idea of European Unity by Emília Hrabovec

“…John Paul II relaunched a new evangelisation instead of compromises with secularism and Marxism, but maintained a fundamental European optimism, whereas Benedict XVI did not hesitate to admit that the European culture, transformed into a laicist utopia which substitutes God by the obstinate self-will of man, could disappear, too. …”
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An architectonics of desire: the person on the path to Nada in John of the Cross by F. England

“…It employs the notion of ‘desireless desire’, in order to describe John’s final position of waiting as one that neither dispenses with an authentically human and desiring subject, nor compromises the final aim of union with God. …”
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