The Concept of Akrasia in D. Husak’s Theory of Criminal Responsibility and the Advantages of Its Alternative by Gediminas Šataitis

“…By using influential texts of ancient and Christian ethics, as well as contemporary research on akratic behavior, this article outlines a different conception of akrasia, one that is based on intrapersonal conflict. …”
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‘Echoes from Home’: The Personalist Ground of Newman’s Ecclesiology. Affection as the Key to Newman’s Intellectual Discernment on the Issue of Church by Dr Robert C. Christie

“…Newman’s majestic work, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (October, 1845), explicated a logical argument for the Roman communion as the rightful heir of the Apostolic church, culminating in an ecclesiastical odyssey that began almost thirty years earlier in his religious conversion of 1816. …”
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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

“…While the exegetical basis of a chosen form may be inconclusive, motives behind the choice may be such that exclusion of people from the Christian community is effected or individuality underlined. …”
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The theology of creation in Vito Mancuso’s Radical Theology by C. C. Simut

“…Mancuso’s concern to re-anchor Christian theology in the experience of today’s people drove him to affirm the fundamental importance of matter as source of everything. …”
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Allured by Satan, the World and the Flesh: Representations of Temptation in Medieval English Drama by Pınar Taşdelen

“…According to medieval Christian understanding, human beings have three obstacles or adversaries that mankind must overcome to achieve salvation: Satan, the world and the flesh. …”
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Facts and their interpretation in paleoanthropological enquiries by Jacek Tomczyk

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« Au-delà d’un simple divertissement » : les effets symboliques de la pratique des jeux de ficelle chez les Inuit by Céline Petit

“…Building both on the study of classical ethnography relating to different groups of the “Inuit area,” and on fieldwork carried out in Inuit communities of the eastern Canadian Arctic in the 2000s-2010s, this paper examines the forms of the ritual or symbolic efficacy ascribed to string figure-making in pre-Christian Inuit societies. Several modes of action involved in this practice are thus considered here in view of the idea of impacts on the cosmic order or meteorological system, and on the human relationships with game animals and with ancestors. …”
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Problems in the theoretical foundation of the functional-equivalent approach by G. J. C. Jordaan

“…This  transformation is conducted in a manner which corresponds with the idea that textual form and message can be separated. For Christians who view the Bible as God’s Word which is time-directed but not time-bound, and at the same time God’s Word which communicates with believers of all time, these theoretical viewpoints of the functional-equivalent approach are problematic. …”
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Pentacostalism & schisms in the Reformed Church in Zambia 1996-2001: contextual and identity changes by H. J. Hendriks, L. Soko

“…In the RCZ, this led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in 1999 and the Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) in 2001. …”
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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

“…Within the framework of Christian theology, the healing dimension of a theologia crucis is researched. …”
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Religion and its Role in Addressing Three Critical Social Issues in Africa: Gender-Based Violence, Crime, and Poverty by Maria Frahm-Arp

“…The articles in this edition look at Muslim communities, Christian communities, southern African language communities, and prison communities exploring what role religions play in helping ordinary people to deal with the challenges of GBV, crime, and poverty. …”
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Torah quotations common to Philo of Alexandria and the Acts of the Apostles by G. J. Steyn

“…Luke’s quotations here resemble adaptations and interpretations already made in the Christian tradition by his time. Several cases show evidence of conflations and paraphrases of the quoted passages. …”
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Zagadnienie nawrócenia i pokuty w dziełach Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…Despite this, Sulpicius is a man full of Christian optimism and he emphasizes mercy that God only offers to those people who admit their sins and undertake an appropriate penance. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“… Marcion of Synope has long been considered a heretic by all Christian churches. He is frequently grouped with the Gnostic trends of Early Christianity, although this is not entirely accurate. …”
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Exceptionally Unusual Case of a Self-Inflicted Suicidal Cut Throat Injury by Mezhuneituo Raleng, Anant Prakash Pore, Temsula Alinger

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Vers la ville de l’âge IV ? by Charles Ambrosino, Inès Ramirez-Cobo

“…While drawing on the results of an urban project workshop, we will endeavour to develop a theoretical hypothesis in line with the considerations made by Christian de Portzamparc on the three ages of the city. …”
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L’iconographie de la croix sur les sarcophages du haut Moyen Âge en Gaule by Anne Flammin

“…In early Christian art, the image of the cross only began appearing on sarcophagi or in the monumental decoration of Roman churches in the mid-fourth century. …”
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Investigating Moral Injury: Thinking Beyond the Law-Conscience Binary by Catherine Yanko

“…Instead, she proposes a theology of depression that makes use of narrative-phenomenological portraits and draws new insights on what Christian discipleship means in the context of depressive suffering. …”
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In Search of Gendabelo, the Ethiopian “Market of the World”of the 15th and 16th Centuries by Amélie Chekroun, Ahmed Hassen Omer, Bertrand Hirsch

“…Located in the region of Ifāt, which was a powerful sultanate in the 14th century and, although it came under Christian rule in the early 15th century, continues to be inhabited by numerous Muslim communities to the present day, Gendabelo is not located. …”
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A DISTINCTIVE PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC by Marius Nel

“…Although there are specific identifiable emphases in a Pentecostal hermeneutics, it does not qualify to be called distinctive, and an ecumenical approach demands that the movement should function within the context of the wider Christian church and its history of reading and interpreting the Bible. …”
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