Reimagining Ghana’s cities: Perspectives from the Bible and African Indigenous Sacred Texts by Michael K. Mensah

“…It argues that the two-fold threats to the City of God, namely the cosmic and the human, are the same threats to the cities in Ghana. …”
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İSLAM GELENEĞİNDE TARİHİN ÖZNESİ SORUNU by Ahmet Keleş

“…Teocentrical telling in the Quran is very important telling style for the One God believing (Tevhit). Quran uses this style in the Quran’s verses. …”
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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR by Sebastian Bender

“…In a nutshell, the argument is that the only possible PSR violation Leibniz allows for is God’s creation of a suboptimal world; there is no Leibnizian possible world, though, which intrinsically violates the PSR. …”
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Exegetical analyses and spiritual readings of the story of the annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) by Huub Welzen

“…Hardly any attention is accorded to the other characters: God, Gabriel and Mary. The second reading offers analyses in terms of which Mary is viewed as a prototype of liberation spirituality. …”
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An embodied spirituality: perspectives for a bodily pastoral anthropology by J-A. van den Berg

“…The article investigates the effect of an emphasis on the biological for a pastoral anthropology in terms of its implications for one’s concept of God, one’s view on personal identity, the affirmation of being relation-orientated, and the importance of context. …”
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Die pastorale gesprek binne 'n narratiewe diakonale pastoraat by PR van Heerden, DJ Kotzé

“…Ways in which such an approach can draw on the new life through Christ and the grace of God in people's lives, even those who do not believe in Him, are integrated into this approach. …”
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The Use of the Stoic Concept of Phronēsis by Irenaeus and Lactantius by Gábor Kendeffy

“…These conceptions were incorporated by the African theologian into his dualistic theological system in a very substantial way, serving to give account for why Satan was produced and allowed to operate by God. These are integrated into Lactantius’ idea of divine deception, which is inherent to his doctrine of the two ways. …”
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Substitution for Substitution in Measure for Measure by Anton Schütz, Chantal Schütz

“…Is Shakespeare’s Angelo also, and perhaps primarily, a substitute for the holder of the absolute and yet ordinate power ascribed to God by another friar, John Duns Scotus (1265-1308), in whose theology the angels play such an important role, and of whose doctrine we know that it was to flourish in England for many centuries to come?…”
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„Svůj pokoj vám dávám…“ Potenciál a výzvy současného pohřbu v Českobratrské církvi evangelické by Jana Hofmanová

“…Unlike civil funerals, however, the central theme is not the personality of the deceased, but the Word of God; or rather, the setting of human life in Gospel hope. …”
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Voorsienigheid, persoonlikheid en spiritualiteit - 'n vier-kantige voorsienigheidsleer by F. B. Doubell

“… This article focuses on the problem of the doctrine of providence, namely that God’s oodness and his almighty power are not understandable in the light of the pain and suffering in this world. …”
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Faire connaissance avec une mulier religiosa dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…In the thirteenth-century Southern Low Countries, the mulieres religiosae played an important part in religious life and were fervently wanted to be met, since they were well known for being great thaumaturgists or intercessors “sending God” to anybody. Their hagiographer provide evidence of this, by through scenes of first meeting which illuminate in a new light the principles of sociability of these devout women. …”
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Bodies in Agony: Classical Sculpture and Violence in Herman Melville's works by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

“…By releasing the darker energies which animate the figure of Apollo – a god “driven by a desire for transgression” in Marcel Détienne’s words – Melville’s writing subverts the immaculate and marmoreal antiquity fantasised by the champions of neoclassicism and opens up an unchartered territory within which agonizing pain and violence might only be glimpsed. …”
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L’UMANA IMMANITÀ: FONTI E FORTUNA DEL FERO ARGANTE. by Gianni Antonio Palumbo

“…The Furies, the Giants (especially Nimrod), Achilles, Turnus, Mezentius, Numan, Capaneus, Pharsalia’s Pompeius relive in this champion of immanity, who shows contempt for God and presents some of the features of Pluto/Satan. …”
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Saints et Sainteté dans le mormonisme de Joseph Smith et celui de l'Église de Jésus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours by Chrystal Vanel

“…Since the beginning of Mormonism in the 19th century, its followers have considered themselves as « Latter Day Saints », having made a covenant with God like puritans before them. Mormon saintliness was then lived out through sanctified communities that were socially, culturally and even sometimes politically separated from the world. …”
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Vergifnis in die gebed van Daniël (Dan. 9:4-19) by D. F. O'Kennedy

“…In this article the understanding of divine forgiveness is studied and the following important elements are emphasised: (1) Forgiveness cannot be limited to one specific historical context; (2) The motivation for forgiveness does not lie in the people’s obedience, but in God’s grace and mercy; (3) The structure and content of the prayer implies that confession of guilt is an important element in the process of forgiveness. …”
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La dimensión mítica de la peregrinación tarasca by Roberto Martínez González

“…Considering that the deity and the people are mutually represented, the displacement of the Chichimecs in the north-south sense is comparable to the apparent seasonally movement of the sun – their god – in the horizon, and symbolizes at the same time the origins of the real Tarascan and a change in the economic strategies during the annual cycle. …”
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Néotène, Hybrides et Chimères by Marika Moisseeff

“…In the West, the idea of man as a creature made by God in His own image has progressively given way to a biological conception that locates humanity’s specific place and ontology between those pertaining to two distinct species: the primates that preceded humans in the course of phylogenesis, and the species that will descend from them, such as the transgenic or chimerical entities that biotechnology should allow them to create. …”
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La divinisation transcendant les limites spatiales et temporelles de l’être créé. Apories et solution ressortissant à l’eschatologie de Maxime le Confesseur by Pascal Mueller-Jourdan

“…This article should provide some clarity on the status of created nature when it transcends these natural limits and becomes in God, in whom there are no limits. …”
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Towards an Adequate Anthropology by Andrzej Jastrzębski

“…An adequate anthropology begins by reflecting on our existential situation, which is the splintering of God’s image in us, and ends with the incarnate Word as the model of a perfect personhood. …”
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UNEXPECTED POSSIBLE. A BUILDING-BLOCK APPROACH TO SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES REVISITED by C.A.M. Hermans

“…Religious experiences include a reference to God as ultimate. Next, the author presents insights from neuropsychology and cognitive science, which assist in understanding human processing of surprise in embodied, cultural and social practices. …”
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