ONCE AGAIN THE TERM MA???’ IN ZECHARIAH 9:1; 12:1 AND IN MALACHI 1:1: WHAT IS ITS SIGNIFICANCE? by K W Weyde

“…bar yhwh, which follows this term, gives authority to this phenomenon, as do the frequent occurrences of formulas marking divine speech in the Book of Malachi, and to some degree in Zechariah 9-14. …”
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Matka naszego Pana czy Królowa Męczenników by Wojciech Życiński

“…She did not construe her Divine Motherhood as expression of sovereignty but declared herself servant of the Lord worshiping the one God and completely given to service for His plan o salvation. …”
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Łaska w ikonach by Monika Wąchocka

“…They must also bring truly its recipient closer to Divine Persons, biblical events or scenes from the lives of the saints. …”
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IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGINS OF ISRAELITE ANICONISM by S I Kang

“…Aniconism refers to the absence or repudiation of divine images. Such a tradition was inconceivable to Israel’s neighbours, where the care, feeding, and clothing of a deity, represented in the form of a divine statue, played a central role in national cults (Jacobsen 1987:15-32; Berlejung 1997:45-72; Walker & Dick 2001; Roth 1992:113-147; Roth 1993:57-79). …”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“…This ontology of force, in which Christianity participates, is a consequence of a modern metaphysics that splits individual and divine will. Cut off from participation in divine will, the autonomous will of Protestant Christian missionaries became the basis for organizing the world of the 19th-century Sotho speakers. …”
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Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study by Juan González-Rivera, Yazmín Álvarez-Alatorre

“…Background: Religious and spiritual struggles are psychological conflicts associated with a relationship with divinity or religious organizations' particular practices and teachings. …”
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On the Way to a Secularized Theology: Why Today’s Disapproval of an Atemporal God Is Gaining Momentum? by Vladimir K. Shokhin

“…The belief in the inseparability of essential atemporality of the Divine from creationism, which lies at the core of Christianity and other monotheistic religions, is in the process of being revised by a growing majority of Christian theologians. …”
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Essai de recherche d’une typologie de la sainte mystique dans l’islam et le christianisme à partir de l’étude de cas de Rabia Adawiyya by Claude-Brigitte Carcenac

“…The study focuses on a noteworthy eighth-century figure of Sufism, Rabia al-Adawiyya, and examines her case in four aspects : the hagiographic account of a saint’s life in its three main stages (birth, the taking up of a saintly life, death), the forms that the quest for divine love takes, the manifestations of the divine calling, and finally, the place of mysticism in a man-centered environment.…”
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Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics by V.U. Iheanacho

“… On 27 March 2020, Pope Francis led a special prayer to seek divine intervention for the cessation of the global corona virus pandemic. …”
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Paul’s Jewish Prophetic Critique of Jews in Romans by Lionel J. Windsor

“…Israel’s failure is an intermediate but not an ultimate divine purpose. Jewish distinctiveness and Torah reveal the seriousness of sin and affirm the justice of God’s wrath. …”
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Knowledge and Discernment: Reflections on the Integration of Biblical Studies and Spirituality by Leslie T. Hardin

“…In the introduction to <i>The Violence of the Lamb: Martyrs as Agents of Divine Judgment in the Book of Revelation</i>, Paul Middleton recounts that at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, he was asked about the possible connections between John’s letters to the seven churches of Asia and modern ecclesiastical practice [...]…”
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“Past fearing death”: Epicurean ethics in Measure for Measure by Jonathan Pollock

“…The numerous allusions to Montaigne’s Essays and Lucretius’ De rerum natura, especially in Act III of Measure for Measure, suggest that non only an “evangelical” but an Epicurean reading of the play is possible, according to which the Duke is not so much a divine figure as an atomist philosopher, advocating measure (and pleasure) in all things.…”
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Paupertas (poverty) in John Calvin's Institutes by R. M. Britz

“…In referring to poverty, or to the victim of poverty, Calvin neither argues that the providentia Dei is a passive perpetual divine determinism nor that it is sacrificed to a temporal interim divine involvement. …”
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Did God Cause the World by an Act of Free Will, According to Aristotle? A Reading Based on Thomistic Insights by Carlos A. Casanova

“…As a contribution to the reflection on whether classic Greek philosophy gave priority either to <i>Necessity</i> and the <i>Fatum</i> or to freedom, this paper endeavors to prove three theses: (1) according to Aristotle, God caused the being of the world by an act of His will; (2) such an act of divine will was free and not necessary; (3) however, such causation is subject to the necessity of supposition. …”
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Człowiek i przyroda w nauce chrześcijańskiego Wschodu by Janusz Aptacy

“…Man created in the "image and likeness" of God is marked by divinity and participates in the divine intellect and, by means of his body, is in relation to the material world. …”
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Imperial coinage and representation of Iulia Cornelia Salonina (253-268 AD) by Adrián Gordón Zan

“…As a result, we determine that there are clear differences between the periods 253-259 and 260-268, where she was more associated with traditional divinities in the first case and with messages linked to the imperial family, her virtues, and the divinities in the second. …”
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Introduction of the Special Issue “Incorporating the Sacred in Counselling” by Kelvin F. Mutter

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Droga jako synonim zbawienia w Koranie. Refleksje lingwistyczno-teologiczne by Marek Micherdziński

“…The verbal derivatives serve to define of the divine action in believers life (S. II, 143. 198; VI, 87; XVI, 36; XXXIX, 18; XCIII, ﻫَﺪَى : 7 hadà – „guided”). …”
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L’hallucination de la connaissance : La Tentation de saint Antoine de Flaubert by Dagmar Stöferle

“…With the adherers of Gnosis he shares the dualism of a material, terrestrial world and a divine, otherworldly prime principle.  Hence, the basic question is whether he finally overcomes this dualism by acquiring “gnosis” or whether the dualisms persist in the text.  …”
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The Conceptualization of Religious Moderation in Islamic Economic Jurisprudence: A Study of Al-Risalah by Imam Al-Shafi’i by M Ilham Tanzilulloh, Abdul Mun'im Saleh

“…Through a philosophical qualitative approach, this research examines how al-Shafi'i’s legal thought provides a sustainable framework for balancing textual authority and adaptability in Islamic economic jurisprudence, ensuring that legal rulings are both divinely grounded and responsive to socioeconomic contexts. …”
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