Psychisme et opérativité chez Maître Eckhart by Yves Meessen

“…The sermons are constructed as an invitation to experience divine operativity, which is irreducible to any representation. …”
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Furtive majesty in John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck by John Gillies

“…One root of this opposition, I suggest, is a tension between the Stuart tendency to vest divine right in the monarch’s person, and the protestant parliamentary vision of a polity-centred kingship (oddly reminiscent of Henry’s actual monarchical practice). …”
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Developing and validation of religious education curriculum in preschool by Zeinab Ashrafi Soltan-Ahmadi, Sadegh Maleki Avarsin, Javad Keyhan, jahangir yari

“…Religious education or divine education is the most important part of Islamic education and the philosophy of the mission of the prophets, and the most basic duty of the divine parents and guardians and educators of the Islamic human society. …”
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Bonhoeffer’s understanding of state-church relationship in context by Stephen Phiri

“…A man imbued with unfathomable passion and belief in Christ confronts a merciless regime, which he believed has acted beyond the bounds of divine mandates. His confrontation of this regime was relentless until the regime condemned him to the sword. …”
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The Eternal Return. Apocatastasis and its Manifestations in Ancient Philosophies: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Zoroastrianism, Platonism and Gnosticism by Alexandru LAZĂR

“…In Gnosticism, apocatastasis takes on an eschatological and soteriological dimension, referring to the liberation of the soul from the material world and the return to the divine origin. Zoroastrianism offers a dualistic interpretation, where the final restoration of the world is associated with the triumph of good over evil and the restoration of cosmic order. …”
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Principles and Rules of the Analysis of the Single Words of the Quran in the View of The Qamus of the Quran by Mohammad ali Mahdavirad, Seyyed Mohammad Musavi Moqaddam, Motahhare sadat Tayyeb hosseini

“…Understanding the single words of the Holy Quran depends on principles and rules, knowing and explanation of which paves the way for better understanding of the meaning of the words and ultimately facilitates reaching the divine purpose of the verses. One of the good works in the area of exegesis of the single words of the Quran is The Qamus of the Quran by Seyyed 'Ali Akbar Qorashi. …”
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The narrative of the woman caught in adultery (JN 7:53-8:1-11) re-read in the Nigerian context by C. U. Manus, J. C. Ukaga

“…For Jesus, women are divinely blessed with equal rights with men. …”
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Les péripéties cynégétiques des Noirs d’Équateur. De l’art de rester humain et chrétien tout en chassant by Armelle Lorcy

“…What it means to be a human person cannot be understood apart from ideas about the divine. Hunting and the precautions hunters take reveal the importance of the forest (el monte) as a symbolic space. …”
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Border of Ethics and Law: A Critique of the Theory of “Denying the Entry of Law into the Scope of the Veil” (Comparative Study of Islam, Iran, and Europe) by Reza Zahravi

“…The realm of law is not limited to the social sphere, and the individual and divine dimensions are not outside the sphere of law, and the entry of law into this realm is rationally defensible and is based on the correct drawing of the boundary between ethics and law; Accordingly, in this article, on the one hand,   by presenting logical arguments for the entry of law into all necessary human relations, under the correct draw of moral and legal boundaries, criticizes arguments against entering the law in other cases to individual scope. …”
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Hezychia w ujęciu Jana Klimaka i jej odzwierciedlenie w wizerunkach postaci na ikonach Andrzeja Rublowa by Olga Cyrek

“…These are people who were divinized as a result of God’s power. However, the conception of Our Lady of Vladimir see that the Mother of God has opened to the grace of God. …”
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A critical evaluation of religious syncretism among the Igbo Christians of Nigeria by E.C. Anizoba

“…Besides the belief in ritualistic charms, many Igbo/Igbo-speaking Christians consult diviners for various reasons, including security and prosperity, causes of illness and death, ways of preserving life, as well as to discern the mind of God about one’s future and destiny. …”
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Hiérophanie et sotériologie dans les traditions ismaéliennes du sous-continent indo-pakistanais by Michel Boivin

“…Around 1845, Hasan 'Alî Shâh, who was the divine guide (imam) of the Ismailis, took refuge in the Indian subcontinent. …”
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Considerations on the Patriarcha by Shervin Moghimi Zanjani

“…We think that Patriarcha was one of the last systematic and coherent attempts to defend the "natural character of politics" and "divine right of kings to rule given by God alone. …”
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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…Not surprisingly, expectations of a new computerised modernity did not materialise, and the project was plagued by endless problems that seemed to be divine acts of resistance to which only celestial bodies could provide a solution. …”
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“That Sottish and Selfish principle”: Cugoano on Self-Interest, Imagination, and Moral Wrongdoing by Aminah Hasan-Birdwell

“…Cugoano describes the enslavers as a self-interested group of men outside of the bounds of civil society since they are not guided by “any human law or divine, except the rules of their own fraternity.” …”
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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The Santuzza and her sacred mountain (Monte Pellegrino) are adopted as divine mediators of the problems and desires arising from their mobility. …”
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Le corps entre sacré et profane : la réforme des pratiques pèlerines en Égypte (xixe-xxe siècles) by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…What disturbs the reformers and travellers is that the pilgrims associate devotion with dance, prayer with the merry-go-rounds, the Divine with the obscene pantomime, and miracles with prostitution.Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state and the muslim clerks have joined their efforts to spiritualize the muslim pilgrimages. …”
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Discernment in Origen of Alexandria by P. B. Decock

“…As such it is able to accept divine guidance from the Holy Spirit and the Logos in order to assess the movements of the soul and to manage these correctly so that the soul may preserve what is good and continue to strive for better things. …”
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Pouvoir et prière dans les images byzantines de don by Tania Kambourova

“…Mais comment interpréter la présence de personnages contemporains à la production des miniatures et des fresques au sein même d’un tel espace sacré, destiné à présenter l’histoire sainte/divine? Souvent, le souverain – seul ou en famille, offre ou reçoit un don dans les images. …”
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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…At the end, the recovery of the stolen gold coins both leads to the emergence of the truth and works as a sign of divine reward for Silas’s spiritual progress. Such weaving of the multi-layered theme of gold into the narrative definitely gives birth to an effective poetics which may address several planes of consciousness.…”
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