Zu den ökologischen Metaphern bei Paulus by Andrzej Najda

“….; 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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Proclaiming the gospel in Macedonia, Achaia and in every place. Missions and 1 Thessalonians 1:6-8 by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…Paul is often regarded as the zealous missionary who took the rural, Palestinian gospel of Jesus to key cities in the Roman Empire and thus contributed decisively to the founding of Christianity. …”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…Furthermore, the saint hereby becomes a hero (of work, of war, or of propaganda) and an armed or unarmed missionary serving a holy “cause”. He does not seek to withdraw from the visible world even if he mundanely practices an ascetic lifestyle. …”
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Iwo: A reevaluation of refugee integration, intergroup relations, and the scenography of power in a 19th-century Yoruba city by Akanmu G. Adebayo

“…Although limited in quantity and significance, Western missionary travelogues and archival information are also consulted. …”
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"By patience, labour and prayer. The voice of the Unseen God in the language of the Bechuana nation." A reflection of the history of Robert Moffat's Setswana Bible (1857) by J. J. Lubbe

“…The relevant primary sources — collected and studied as the focus of this article — suggest that it might have been the daily life and work of this missionary and his wife for nearly half a century amongst the Batswana. …”
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Reversing the biblical tide: what Kuruman teaches London about mission in a post-colonial era by S. de Gruchy

“… Through a case study focusing on the shift from the London Missionary Society (LMS) to the Council for World Mission (CWM) this essay argues that there is a hermeneutical circle between the Bible and mission. …”
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"Russiana gloriatur ecclesia" and the issue of St. Bruno's of Querfurt missions by Marius Ščavinskas

“…Bruno (the bishop and the monks), was Sweden. Finally the missionary himself came to Russian-Lithuanian border, where he was killed. …”
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José Olallo Valdés: a Cuban male nurse to be remembered by Onassys Barreiro Alberdi, Yanet Blanco Fleites

“…José Olallo was a monk of the Order San Juan de Dios, who assumed infirmary practice as his profession, with a considerable humanist approach. He was a missionary who devoted his life to relief other people´s pain, no matter their religion, race, or social status, with no material profits for himself. …”
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A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826) by I.D. Mothoagae

“… The Setswana language is one of the Southern African languages that was “reduced” into a written language through the translation of Christian literature by the London Missionary Society. The introduction of the Setswana spelling book in 1826 epitomised the vernacularisation and standardisation of Setswana. …”
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The Effect of Public and Private Decisions on University Governance on the Transnational Relations of American-Associated Universities in the Middle East by Rasmus Bertelsen

“…These universities are the classic missionary universities in Beirut and Cairo (the American University of Beirut, Lebanese American University and the American University in Cairo) as well as the many branch campuses and new universities with American accreditation or partnership which have appeared especially in the Gulf States. …”
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L’instituteur du Code Soleil : la vocation d’un prophète missionnaire by André Pachod

“…Through his word, his life and his work, he becomes the missionary prophet of the School of the Republic to love and to make loved. …”
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Le moment Atlantique de la dynastie des Winthrop au XVIIe siècle by Lauric Henneton

“…Beyond the sole commercial dimension, this paper considers the multiple and overlapping Atlantic worlds (family, diplomatic, imperial, missionary and scientific) in which the Winthrops were involved.…”
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Pentacostalism & schisms in the Reformed Church in Zambia 1996-2001: contextual and identity changes by H. J. Hendriks, L. Soko

“…The hypothesis is as follows: The leadership style of church leaders was influenced by the one-party state with its autocratic presidential powers that continued the missionary legacy of autocratic rule. The autocratic leadership style met head on with a new globalizing culture and with the Pentecostal tendencies in society. …”
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Yorùbá Coastal Christian Communities: From the Evangelist Band Mission to the Zion and Holy Apostles Communities by Adégbọlá Tolú Adéfì

“…Líjàdú and his Evangelist Band Mission, which represents an African missionary effort of the first generation in the Ikale and Ìlàjẹ areas, and the more recent Zion and Holy Apostles communities that have been established along the coast as independent Christian settlements under local spiritual leaders and kings. …”
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Découverte d’une culture africaine et fantasmes d’un missionnaire. Le Dictionnaire français-kirundi du Père Van der Burgt (1903) entre ethnographie, exégèse biblique et orientalism... by Jean-Pierre Chrétien

“…One of the first exogenous looks on the Great Lakes region of Africa came from a missionary in Burundi, the Dutch White Father Van der Burgt. …”
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L’expulsion du métropolite copte Yā‘ǝqob (1337-1344) par le roi ‘Amda Ṣǝyon (1314-1344) : une politique de tolérance vis-à-vis des communautés musulmanes d’Éthiopie ?... by Martina Ambu

“…This contribution aims to expand the extant investigations on the confrontations that took place between the Christian king of Ethiopia ‘Amda Ṣǝyon (1314-1344), the Egyptian metropolitan Yā‘ǝqob (1337-1344) and the missionary monks from the Takla Haymānot’s network. …”
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Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale by Géraldine Djament-Tran

“…Various scenarios are identified and graphically represented in this article, based more specifically on the debates in Italy in the second half of the 19th century and in Germany in 1991: the central capital, the border capital, the historical capital, the missionary capital and the hinge capital. They can serve, alone or combined, to explain the location of today’s capitals.In a second part, we investigate the links between territory and politics revealed by the location of a capital. …”
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Christianity in Transformation: The rise of African Christianity among the AmaXhosa of the Eastern Cape by J. Mokhoathi

“…This form of synthesis appears to have been an age-old problem of the Christian church, beginning with the missionary epoch, and up to contemporary times, and it is still not acknowledged. …”
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Jesuit Fathers Beyond the Iron Curtain: Directions and Challenges of Lithuanian Jesuit Exiles in the 20th Century by Ignas Stanevičius

“…Jesuits continued their missionary work beyond the borders of the vice-province, undertaking missions in Canada, South America, and Uruguay. …”
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The linguistic, conceptual, and pragmatic challenges of communicating Galatians 3:1-14 in Chewa by Ernst Wendland

“…This forms the basis, in turn, for a comparative analysis of how this passage has been translated into Chewa in an old missionary-produced version (1922) in contrast to a more recent meaning-centered rendering (1998) as well as a special oral-poetic translation that was prepared as part of this study. …”
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