Osoba i przesłanie św. Franciszka by Roland Prejs

“…St. Bonaventure was a theologian and philosopher first of all. He shows us St. …”
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JUSTICE AS BEAUTY-IN-ACTION? INSIGHTS FROM HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S AESTHETICS AND DRAMATICS by M.J. Havenga

“… This essay explores the relation between beauty and justice by turning to the thought of the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. It begins by giving an exposition of Balthasar’s theological aesthetics, as developed in his work The glory of the Lord, which shows how, for Von Balthasar, earthly beauty participates in, and expresses something of God’s divine glory and reaches its apex in the revelation of the beautiful form of Jesus Christ. …”
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God’s Alterity and the Particularity of Christ by Björn Vikström, Elli Barsnes

“…The article provides a comparison between how the philosopher Richard Kearney, of Roman-Catholic origin, and the Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart relate the particularity of the Christ event to the unfathomability of God. …”
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Common grace as theological encouragement for interreligious dialogue by T. Salurante, D. Kristanto, M. Wibowo

“… The Dutch theologian-statesman Abraham Kuyper developed the doctrine of common grace in a lengthy manner. …”
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The role of the Holy Spirit in Calvin's doctrine of the sacraments by I. J. Hesselink

“… Calvin has frequently been labeled “the theologian of the Holy Spirit”. Although there have been a number of studies of various aspects of the Holy Spirit in Calvin’s theology since the significant works of Simon van der Linde (1943) and Werner Krusche (1957), none has dealt with the role the Spirit plays in Calvin’s doctrine of the sacraments. …”
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Transcendence: what on earth are we talking about? by Daniël P. Veldsman

“… Within the scope of contemporary discourses on transcendence, this article presents and critically discusses the four models of transcendence that have been identified by the Dutch theologian Wessel Stoker. Two questions guide the discussion, namely whether our thinking of transcendence is any more than an unconscious way of being caught up in certain hard-to-shake spatializing and/or representational schemas, and how far we can interpret/translate the various phenomena of transcendence in terms of modal transformations of the quality of our responses to the world and to others, setting aside all onto-theological constructions referring to a beyond. …”
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Bridging the cultural gap in Bible translation as a case in point by C. Nord

“…It was the first translation of these texts that involved a theologian and a translation scholar, and it was the first translation based on modern functional translation theory. …”
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Ethnographic Theology: Integrating the Social Sciences and Theological Reflection by Gerardo Martí

“… Theologians are widely embracing ethnographic research to accomplish their theological work. …”
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide: a Christian ethical perspective by E. de Villiers

“… This article introduces and compares the contrasting views of two well-known theologians, Gilbert Meilaender and Harry Kuitert, on euthanasia and medically assisted suicide. …”
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'n Narratiewe benadering tot die pastoraat: kritiese opmerkings na aanleiding van die huidige teologiese debat by A. R. Brunsdon

“…At the heart of this theological storm lies the diversity among theologians about how the Word of God should be proclaimed in the postmodern era, as postmodernism poses a challenge to all sciences to re-formulate their claims. …”
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Liturgical reform in the "breaking of the bread" in the Lord's Supper in the Palatinate and its resonance in the Heidelberg Catechism by E. de Boer

“…The present article describes how the reformation was initiated and implemented by the elector Frederic III, what the response from Lutheran theologians was, and how the theological defence from the Heidelberg theologians came to be formulated. …”
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Wyjaśnienie dogmatu chalcedońskiego w VI wieku. Interpretacja osoby i natury przez teologów „neochalcedonizmu” według Aloisa Grillmeiera by Giacomo Calore

“…Theses theologians developed the concept of person as the source of the nature’s existence, thus giving it an existential and primary meaning in relation to phýsis. …”
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A DISTINCTIVE PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC by Marius Nel

“… Over the past twenty years, Pentecostal theologians have published extensively on hermeneutical issues, a subject that had not received much consideration before the mid-1990s. …”
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The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order by P. Kopiec

“…Yet, churches and their doctrines are abundant sources of reflection on social and economic matters. Theologians employ their religious knowledge and pastoral experiences in developing theological conceptions of the socio-economic models. …”
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Die Bybel is steeds in diskussie: 'n dekade later by F. B. Doubell

“…According to Deist, opposing theologians had to realise that the Bible is both a divine and a human book. …”
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The spirituality of Andrei Rublev's Icon of the Holy Trinity by J. Reimer

“… This article focuses on the work of Rublev who is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian Orthodox painter of icons and frescoes and whose work has influenced generations of Russian artists, theologians, writers and philosophers. It examines Rublev’s spirituality, both historically and theologically, with specific attention to the Icon of the Holy Trinity which is considered to be his most important work. …”
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The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Portuondo María M.

“…Using the figures of cosmographer Andrés García de Céspedes, architect Juan de Herrera, and theologians Benito Arias Montano and Francisco Suárez, this essay explains how they engaged with the limitations, but also the strengths of pre-Galilean natural philosophy.…”
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Calvyn oor die verskynsel van demonologie by C. F. C. Coetzee

“…Not only was he one of the greatest Reformed theologians, but he also lived and worked in the “devil’s golden age”. …”
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Mysticism and the Reformation: a brief survey by B. McGinn

“… A number of influential theologians over the past two centuries have denied that Protestant Christianity has a place for mysticism understood as the mingling of the divine and human natures. …”
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Calvyn oor die leiding van die Heilige Gees in die verklaring van die Skrif by P. C. Potgieter

“… Many theologians are unmistakenly reluctant to acknowledge the guidance of the Holy Spirit as a hermeneutic key in explaining Scripture. …”
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