Exercitium pietatis - Calvin's interpretation of the Lord's Prayer by W. H. Neuser

“…Initially he tried to understand the correct theological meaning of the Lord’s Prayer; later he urged the person who prays to use it correctly. At the outset the theologian spoke, later he became the pastor of souls. …”
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Dynamisme du néo-gothique, architecture du renouveau religieux : le débat sur la création architecturale dans les années 1840 : A. W. N. Pugin et J. H. Newman by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…Newman, the well-known theologian and thinker. While the former advocated architectural decoration in the Gothic style as its most perfect form, best suited to the expression of Catholic faith, the latter found the essence of religion not in the visible manifestations of faith but in interior contemplation. …”
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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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Theology Before and After Bishop Robinson’s Honest to God (1963)

“…The thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann and Paul Tillich, which Robinson summarized in his book, were themselves simply the twentieth century version of the radical changes in theology made necessary by the advent of the post-Enlightenment world, and which had been set in motion in rather different ways at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher. Since the Enlightenment brought to humans the freedom to think for themselves – Bonhoeffer labelled this phenomenon ‘Humanity’s coming of age’ – so the theological enterprise gradually changed from being the exposition of divinely revealed dogmas to the human exploration of religious experience. …”
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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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Idololatria Vilnensis: The Confessional Debates of Jesuits and Protestants on Sacred Images in the 16th Century Lithuania by Tomas Riklius

“…In response, the Catholic theologian Andrzej Jurgiewicz defended the use of sacred images, emphasising their role as visual witnesses of Catholic tradition in a post-Tridentine aesthetic paradigm. …”
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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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Ecology and Justice: From Environmental Justice to Integral Ecology of «Laudato si’» by Jerzy Gocko

“…The viewpoint of a moral theologian allows us to perceive the duties associated with it not only as a legal obligation (debitum iuridicum) but also more deeply as a moral obligation (debitum morale). …”
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Marcusa Vogta próba integracji zasad ekorozwoju z Katolicką Nauką Społeczną by Rafał Czekalski

“…We have done so on the basis of the works of a German moral theologian M. Vogt. The integration of the principles of eco-development with the Catholic social teaching may take place in a dialogue between the theology of creation together with its implications and the knowledge of nature. …”
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De l’utopie socialiste au réalisme chrétien by Isabelle Richet

“…While a majority of Protestants and their clergy opposed Franklin Roosevelt from a conservative position, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr developed a virulent left‑wing criticism of his policies, before finally rallying to his support at the end of the decade. …”
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Les Noces Chymiques de Johann Valentin Andreae dans Die Geheimnisse et Das Märchen de Goethe by Annie Zdenek

“…In The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, Goethe borrowed alchemical symbols as theologian Andreae did in his esoteric novel and he sometimes parodied them so as to depict the process of development of his characters, but unlike Andreae, Goethe gave them a political and moral meaning: the new historical context of the end of the 18th century, that is to say the French revolution, weakened the German countries and divided the cultivated elite. …”
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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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Evaluating News In Press About Konya In Context Of City Image by Nur Görkemli, Başak Solmaz

“…Moreover, the city is also very well-known in the world with one of the greatest philosopher, poet, theologian, and Sufi mystic Mevlana Jelaleddin Rumi, who lived most of his life in Konya. …”
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CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

“…Reinhold Niebuhr was a protestant theologian and political adviser to the Council of Foreign Relations and George Kennan’s Policy Planning Staff. …”
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Ekorozwój jedyną drogą polskiej wsi i rolnictwa by Mieczysław Górny

“…The only agricultural managing system which complies with the idea of eco-development is ecological farming, whose initiators were: Dezydery Chłapowski at the beginning of the 9th century, officer, Napoleon's aide-de-camp as well as Rudolf Steiner from Austria, philosopher, theologian, and occultist at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Адам и Ева как прообраз Нового Адама и Новой Евы (по учению святителя Иринея Лионского, Тертуллиана и святителя Викторина Петавийского). К вопросу о теории рекапитуляции в раннехри... by Nikolay A. Khandoga

“…Following tradition in the presentation of the theory of cancer-capitulation, Tertullian in his treatise «On the flesh of Christ» uses the epistles of the apostle Paul, the works of Irenaeus of Lyon and the typological-mysterious method of interpreting Holy Scripture. The first latin theologian in his work resorted to analogies: the first is an uncultivated land, that is, since the first Adam was created from an uncultivated earth — the Second Adam was also created from an uncultivated earth, or was born from the Blessed Virgin Mary; the second — the heard word, that is, because through the heard word the first Eve sinned — the second Eve also through the heard word did not sin, or became the cause of the salvation of the entire human race. …”
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THE RECEPTION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION AS A WAY OF FORMING AMERICAN PERSONALISM: THE POST-SECULAR VIEW by V. O. Patsan

“…The methodology of the research is based upon realizing the meta-ontological character of the problem of the personality revealed in the midst of the twentieth century by the prominent Orthodox theologian and philosopher-personalist V. N. Lossky. …”
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