ZARûRİYYÂT DÜZEYİNDEKİ GÂÎ DEĞERLERİN MAHİYETİ VE EVRENSEL NİTELİĞİ ÜZERİNE by Ali Pekcan

“…Thanks to this procedure, not only would the capability and being binding of the source turn out, but the cause and the divine wisdom behind his act also would be understandable for the sane adult (mukallaf).…”
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A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl by R. de Groot

“…The meeting between the sheikh and the Christian girl may be compared with the encounter between Rumi and Shamsoddin of Tabriz, in the sense that both are transformed by shock from an eminent scholar into a true lover of the divine. …”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…It has, therefore, a quasi-divine character. The party and its charismatic leader, who are seen as incorporations of the whole body politic, take the empty place God has left. …”
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EINE BETRACHTUNG DER DARGESTELLTEN LEHRMETHODEN JESU IM MATTHÄUSEVANGELIUM AUS DER PERSPEKTIVE DER METHODEN DER ERLEBNISPÄDAGOGIK by M. Hagel

“…Jesus, the meaning of his life, and his divine mission constitute the central message of the Gospel of Matthew. …”
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Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937) by Qijun Zheng

“…Through a detailed analysis of primary sources, including editions of the <i>Maoshan Gazetteer</i>, liturgical manuals such as the scripture (<i>jing</i> 經), litany (<i>chan</i> 懺), and performative texts such as the precious scroll (<i>baojuan</i> 寶卷) of the Three Mao Lords, this study identifies six key rhetoric strategies employed by Maoshan Daoists, using the acronym IMPACT: (1) Incorporation: Appending miracle tales (<i>lingyan ji</i> 靈驗記) and divine medicine (<i>xianfang</i> 仙方) to address immediate and practical needs of contemporary society; (2) Memory: Preserving doctrinal continuity while invoking cultural nostalgia to reinforce connections to traditional values and heritage; (3) Performance: Collaborating with professional storytellers to disseminate vernacularized texts through oral performances, thereby reaching broader audiences including the illiterate. (4) Abridgment: Condensing lengthy texts into concise and accessible formats; (5) Canonization: Elevating the divine status of deities through spirit-writing, thereby enhancing their religious authority; (6) Translation: Rendering classical texts into vernacular language for broader accessibility. …”
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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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Martha’s Dialogue with Jesus (John 11,21-27) in Light of the Psalms of Lament by Richard Francis D’Souza OCD

“…While the first part of the dialogue corresponds to the plea section of a lament psalm with the constituent elements of address, complaint, petition, and motivation (Jn 11,21-22), the second part mirrors the praise section of the psalm which consist of words of assurance and divine praise (Jn 11,23-27). The second part of the paper is a theological interpretation of the profound dialogue between Jesus and Martha. …”
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Status prawny hermafrodytów w Rzymie by Jarosław Rominkiewicz

“…Romans applied this term to describe peculiar phenomena caused—as they believed—by divine activity, which were aimed at indicating the imminent rupture of pax deorum, i.e. an accord between humans and the gods. …”
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The Heidelberg Catechism: elements for a theology of care by F. de Lange

“…God as a caring, ‘mothering” God; 2. human beings as having care as their essence and divine vocation; and 3. the relationship between God and human beings as a relationship of mutual care. …”
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Augustine on election: the birth of an article of faith by Erik A. de Boer

“… The doctrine of divine election is part of the heritage of Western Christianity. …”
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An incarnation engaged worship and spirituality by EK Foshaugen

“…People are turning ro exotic cultures and esoteric practices in search of intimacy - a desire to experience human love and trust, meaning and purpose; and transcendence - recognition of the divine. Through developing a theology of spirituality and worship chis article attempts to define a practical theological theory for worship and spirituality. …”
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Charles Humbert « enlumine » l’Enfer de Dante vers 1920 by Philippe Kaenel

“…A l’occasion du sixième centenaire de la naissance de Dante, Charles Humbert (1891-1958), peintre neuchâtelois, calligraphie et enlumine le texte de La Divine comédie dans un volume monumental conservé dans le fonds qu’il a déposé à la bibliothèque de La Chaux-de-Fonds (55 sur 35 centimètres et comptant 445 pages). …”
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Disclosing the Spirit in Evangelical Leadership Discourse by Hadley Bennet

“…These quantitative results offer evidence to suggest that a full account of the Divine Move that is Spirit, and the leading activity of the Spirit, fails to be disclosed in these texts. …”
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Living wounds (anfechtungen) or blacksmithing of the human soul? The pastoral art of marvellous exchange (mirifica commutatio) in spiritual well-being by D.J. Louw

“…Thus, the emphasis on divine substitution in a pastoral approach of “double switching”, while facing the factuality of the irreversibility of Anfechtungen (spiritual dread and anguish) and human imperfection. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“…In his attempt to cleanse Christianity of its Jewish elements, Marcion set the bases for a critique of the cult to a violent God and the divine inspirations of violence. Marcion believed that the Old Testament God (Yahweh) was, in fact, the same as the creator or the material world, from which we must escape. …”
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PREACHING WHEN VIRAL THREATS CONVERGE: USA SERMONS, 31 MAY AND 7 JUNE 2020 by S.A. Brown

“…Sermons preached in the USA in congregations of distinctive predominant racial identity on the two Sundays following Floyd’s death (31 May and 7 June 2020) are assessed hermeneutically, asking: “In what ways did US sermons, preached on 31 May and 7 June 2020, interpret divine presence and activity in relation to the preacher’s interpretation of listeners’ needs and responsibilities; biblical text(s) referenced, and/or the dual public crisis impinging on national life?” …”
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Cry of the earth, of the poor, and of the spirit. Physical, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of the ecological crisis by Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam

“…At a still deeper level, the ecological crisis is also a profoundly spiritual crisis, as it results primarily from our inability to look at the physical world as God’s creation, the primordial revelation of divine goodness and glory. !e author skillfully weaves together the physical, moral, and religious dimensions of the problem into a unitary whole, and argues that it is only a holistic view of the crisis that can awaken us to the true magnitude of the unprecedented challenge facing our common home.…”
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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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The weight of African native-centric ecology in eco-desacralization by Ikechukwu Monday Osebor

“…Abstract The ecological crisis is one of the environmental issues affecting the planet, and it is caused by eco-desacralization, a concept defined by environmental skepticism that relegates the divine identities of the environment. Doubts about the authenticity of environmental degradation or climate change and desert encroachment bear a strong anthropocentric view of nature. …”
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EMBODIMENT, IDENTITY FORMATION AND MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP: ROOTS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION by J. Barentsen

“…Missional leadership is intent on discerning divine involvement in embodied faith practices in neighbourhoods, communities and contexts. …”
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