Wanneer jongmense hoop verloor: 'n pastorale perspektief op die selfmoordkontemplerende adolessent by A. R. Brunsdon, J. Janse van Rensburg

“…Pastoral therapy has access to Biblical paradigms, which are highly reconcilable with hopelessness and despair. …”
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Chronicler's women - a holistic appraisal by F. Olojede

“… This article attempts to fill, in part, the gap in scholarship on the role of women in the book of Chronicles by providing data to show that the Chronicler succeeded in highlighting the roles and status of women in ancient Israel, as he copiously employed materials that are otherwise unknown in the biblical text and modified his Vorlage. A relentless focus on kinship and familial ties is discernible in the analysis of the roles and positions of the women who are presented in a way that shows their affinities to the people (or land) of Israel. …”
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The church and LGBTQ: Towards the church as an inclusive communion of disciples by Y.B. Setyawan

“…To become such an inclusive community, the church must be open to seriously consider three important points, namely the scientific findings of LGBTQ, especially in the medical and psychological fields; the latest theological views on LGBTQ and new ways of interpreting the biblical text, as well as an ecclesiological reconstruction of the essence of the church as an inclusive communion of disciples. …”
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De l’usage de l’intertexte biblique dans quelques poèmes de George Herbert et de John Donne by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…Controversial as the underlying theology of metaphysical poetry may be, such poets as George Herbert and John Donne extensively resorted to the use of the biblical intertext, and they had a thorough knowlege of both the hermeneutics and the poetics of their time. …”
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Смысл символики имени „Макар” в контексте творчества Ф.М. Достоевского и проблем эсхатологии как скрытый концепт жизни и культурной креативности человека... by Olga Krężołek

“…The name Makar as a symbol of the organic unity and the integrity of man's personality is rendered as a biblical universal model of the whole creation of which man is its expression. …”
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Oryginalne ujęcie kwestii wiary w encyklice papieża Franciszka Lumen fidei by Henryk Sławiński

“…The original is not so much the matter of faith as such, but the description of faith from the biblical, patristical and existential point of view. …”
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Jude the Obscure de Thomas Hardy et l’autorité de la lettre by Stéphanie Bernard

“…This defeat of the divine is nevertheless accompanied by a great number of biblical references. Thomas Hardy quotes and uses the Divine Letter as if to rewrite it rather than to appear faithful to the Word. …”
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Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752) by Anne Damon-Guillot

“…Prutky, in masterful rhetoric, ascribes high symbolical value, very often biblical, to the sounds he heard in Ethiopia. His aim was partisan: to give audible form to the heresy of the Ethiopian Christianity. …”
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Historical narrative and wisdom. Towards preaching Esther "for such a time as this" by Arie C. Leder

“…The article suggests that biblical wisdom literature, which discerns God’s veiled presence without respect to acts in history, can be employed to profitably preach Esther in a world where God is present, but readers experience him as veiled. …”
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Calvyn oor die leiding van die Heilige Gees in die verklaring van die Skrif by P. C. Potgieter

“…By investigating relevant sections of his published works, in particular those in his commentaries on Biblical passages referring to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, this article explores the way in which Calvin established and applied his modus operandi. …”
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Au rendez-vous allemand (1) by Agnès Bouvier

“…According to Herder, biblical exegesis must performed by shifting the critical angle to develop in the modern reader an esthetic sensibility similar to that of the original reader.…”
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More Than Hospitality: A Reflection on The Parish Ministry of Welcoming and Hospitality by Pierre-Alain Giffard

“…This article examines the biblical and traditional understanding of hospitality as well as strategies employed by mission-minded and thriving churches to effectively practice it. …”
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Ecological Theology of Creation in The Perspective of The Theology of The Trinity by Jarosław Babiński

“…This is the reason for attempting to interpret the ecological theology of creation from a Trinitarian aspect. The analysis of biblical and theological sources provides the basis for this. …”
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The New Christian Right’s relations with Israel and with the American Jews: the mid-1970s onward by Mokhtar BEN BARKA

“…Their love for the State of Israel stems from biblical teachings asserting that God blesses those who bless the Jews and curses those who curse the Jews (Genesis, 12:3). …”
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'n Gereformeerd-narratiewe pastorale terapie by J. P. Bezuidenhout, J. Janse van Rensburg

“…However, for some researchers and therapists post-modernity is not acceptable, since the use of such a narrative therapy could construe many contrasting points of departure in contrast to a biblical based pastoral therapy. Is it possible to deconstruct the basic elements of narrative therapy and reconstruct a pastoral narrative therapy that makes use of strategies of narrative therapy without accepting the paradigm that underlies it? …”
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JOHANNINE WOMEN AS PARADIGMS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT by J. Thomaskutty

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The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to? by H. Mdingi

“…The methodological aspect of this research is a literature study aimed at discussing transmission and reception of biblical discourse in Africa by viewing differently the subject of God’s revelation from a variety of sources. …”
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The covenant in Ulrich Huber's enlightened theology, jurisprudence and political theory by A. W. G. Raath, S. A. de Freitas

“…This takes place against the background of the more prominent insights  regarding the covenant in 16th and 17th century Western political thought, namely the idea of the Biblical covenant (with the emphasis on the conditional nature of God’s law), and the secular social contract theories stemming from the early Enlightenment. …”
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Les condiments dans les proverbes de Correas : l’huile, le vinaigre et le sel by Eva Galar

“…The experience of our ancestors concerning daily life at home, and more particularly work, health or human relationships, constitutes the raw material of proverbs, material that frequently comes with a symbolic, cultivated burden (translations of Latin phrases or biblical sentences, for instance). On the basis of proverbs collected by Gonzalo Correas in his work Vocabulario de refranes y frases proverbiales (1627), the author has picked out those making mention of three elements that have always been present in Mediterranean homes all throughout history, oil, vinegar and salt, to trace the portrait of popular philosophy and daily life during the Spanish Golden Age. …”
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Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…The article focuses on the disrespectful representations of the paradigmatic Southern garden which remains dynamic while maintaining some of its classic or biblical features. By relying on the conception of the pastoral garden as theorized by Leo Marx in The Machine in the Garden (1964), the author pays specific attention to the way mid-xxth century cinema kept recreating Williams’s Southern gardens as a corrupted and dehumanized space pierced through by disquieting shrieks.…”
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