« Vos pensées ne sont pas mes pensées et mes chemins ne sont pas vos chemins » (Isaïe 55.8) : une réflexion sur le thème de l’ordre dans les Suspiria de Profundis (1845) de Thomas... by Frédéric Slaby

“…Although chaos is easily noticeable in De Quincey’s digressional style, order is also a recurring motif in the narrative of this mature work. Indeed, for the Protestant and Romantic author plagued by suffering, chaos and order are the starting points for broader reflections. …”
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Symposium on the role of religious leaders in peacemaking and social change in Africa: Zambia's case by F.D. Sakala

“…It also discusses how the Christian Church (Catholic and Protestant) has worked together on political and social issues in Zambia. …”
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Bulgarian Translations of the Qurʾān (1900–2020): Missionary Agenda, Communist Ideology, and Canonical Impulse by Pavel Pavlovitch

“…The first period is dominated by two Protestant translations from English motivated by a missionary incentive. …”
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Czy zasada „sola Scriptura”pomaga czy przeszkadza w zjednoczeniu chrześcijaństwa? by Dariusz Kazimierz Bartoszewicz

“…Its meaning, however, is not precisely determined. Protestants consider the Bible the only source of Revelation. …”
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Messianic Hopes and Middle East Politics: the Influence of Millennial Faith on American Middle East Policies by Yaakov Ariel

“…L’imagerie biblique issue du courant messianique protestant joue un rôle dans la formation des attitudes américaines envers la Palestine depuis le XIXe siècle. …”
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Présentation d’une controverse : les Écritures face à la critique biblique au xixe siècle en Grande-Bretagne  by Frédéric Slaby

“…Until the beginning of the 19th century, most of the Catholic, Anglican and Protestant exegetes, theologians and regular churchgoers thought that the Bible was the Word of God, and that God’s truth was present in every word of the Scriptures. …”
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HISTORICAL MELODIES IN GALLUS HUSZÁR’S HYMNAL OF 1560 by Ágnes TÖRÖK

“… Gallus Huszár’s hymnal is the first Hungarian Protestant congregational hymnbook. The origin of its melodies is mainly from Europian sources: Luther’s songs, odes, Gregorian chants, other mediaeval melodies and their variations can be found in this cantional. …”
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THOMAS MÜNTZER: A HISTORICAL CATALYST IN GERMAN PEASANTS WAR by Emre Taşkıran

“…Examining social, political, and theological dynamics in the 16th century German Reformation process, this article has tried to find the potential answers to the basic question, which is how contradicted theological conflict between prominent Protestant doctrines led to revolutionary tendencies among exploited groups in German Reformation Process. …”
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Printing Privileges for Psalters in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by Nina Geerdink

“… Starting from the assumption that printing privileges were an important way of enhancing a publication’s reputation, this article focuses on psalters, which played an important role in Protestant religious life in the Dutch Republic. Psalters were among the earliest books granted privileges by the States of Holland and the States-General, and were published with a privilege more often than other works. …”
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Charitable acts and lived religion in the funeral sermons of early seventeenth-century women by Emily VINE

“…Focusing on both Catholic and Protestant women who lived and died in London between 1600 and 1660, it suggests that women’s charity work, particularly that which involved active labours such as feeding the poor, tending the sick, and assisting with childbirth, was presented as a key aspect of their lived religion. …”
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L’invention du culte musulman dans l’Algérie coloniale du xixe siècle by Oissila Saaidia

“…If the framework seemed obvious for Catholic, Protestant and Jewish worship, despite some reluctance, what was there to say about Islam, the religion of the colonized? …”
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Paul’s Jewish Prophetic Critique of Jews in Romans by Lionel J. Windsor

“…It argues against the traditional Protestant problematization of “works righteousness”, Sanders’ claim that Paul reasons from solution to plight, and the New Perspective’s problematization of ethnic distinctiveness. …”
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Císařská volba a korunovace ve Frankfurtu nad Mohanem roku 1612 a česká účast na těchto událostech by Petr Vorel

“…The election of king Matthias is explained as a victory of Protestant imperial estates. The author works also with two kinds of sources that have not been used before – a very detailed accommodation list of the Matthias‘ court and a very large documentation of the preparation of the Matthias‘ journey that is preserved in the registry of Bohemian court chancellery (Böhmische Hofkanzlei). …”
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A CENTURY OF CONSTITUTIONALISM by Cornelia Beatrice Gabriela ENE-DINU

“…The problem of national minorities had also become more complex, confessions had appeared that previously were not very important from a numerical point of view in the Old Kingdom (Greek-Catholic, Protestant, Catholic), and through the peace treaties Romania was obliged to guarantee their rights. …”
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Early Modern Exemplars: Reading Strategies and the Assertion of Readerly Identity and Authority in the Life-writing of Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert and Elizabeth Isham by Martin Thompson

“…This article combines close readings with material analysis of three female-authored autobiographical manuscripts to suggest that, contrary to Western, Protestant and masculine assumptions, these pious seventeenth-century women perceived of themselves primarily not only as authors but readers of their own divinely-authored life stories. …”
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In the Eyes of the Beholder: Towards Depicting the Dog in the Nineteenth Century by Beryl Gray

“…I draw on texts and images to support my belief that in late medieval and early modern England the stance towards the dog was markedly unbiblical, while the authoritatively expressed ‘contempt or aversion’ made familiar through the Geneva Bible significantly influenced society’s attitudes to dogs in Protestant Britain. From the outset, the adverse effect conflicted with an established and persisting association of the dog with fidelity. …”
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Geneva. An Urban Sociodemographic Database by Michel Oris, Olivier Perroux, Grazyna Ryczkowska, Reto Schumacher, Adrien Remund, Gilbert Ritschard

“…Combined with qualitative information extracted from the archives of public administrations and the National Protestant Church, as well as from newspapers, these databases were used to study the transformation of a medium-sized European city, sociopolitical tensions embedded in demographic and social structures, and the impact of the immigrants who made the 'Calvinist Rome' a religiously mixed city. …”
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Livres et pratique de la lecture chez les chrétiens (Syrie, Liban) XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles by Bernard Heyberger

“…Staying within the religious domain, the arrival, in the 18th century, of the Protestant printed works, the creation of Oriental printing presses and the circulation of works originating from Orthodox regions enlarged the gamut of expression and reading material offered to Arab Christians. …”
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“A democratic art at a democratic price”: The American Celebrations of the Shakespeare Tercentenary, 1916 by Monika Smialkowska

“…This article demonstrates that public interest and participation extended beyond the narrow circles of Anglo-Protestant elites. Moreover, most American Tercentenary initiatives did not originate from governmental institutions and bodies, but rather from the grassroots: members of the public, clubs and associations, individual educationalists, churches, schools and colleges. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Philosophy of Religious Thought in Islam and Christianity by Sajjad Behruzi, Mohammad Reza Bayat

“…Some of the weak points of this book are some undocumented explanations, point to some apparent similarities between Islamic Kalam and Protestant theology despite attempts to avoid it, biased judgments, failure to refer to all sources, and failure to follow some rules of the comparative method. …”
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