Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…Not surprisingly, expectations of a new computerised modernity did not materialise, and the project was plagued by endless problems that seemed to be divine acts of resistance to which only celestial bodies could provide a solution. …”
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“That Sottish and Selfish principle”: Cugoano on Self-Interest, Imagination, and Moral Wrongdoing by Aminah Hasan-Birdwell

“…Cugoano describes the enslavers as a self-interested group of men outside of the bounds of civil society since they are not guided by “any human law or divine, except the rules of their own fraternity.” …”
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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The Santuzza and her sacred mountain (Monte Pellegrino) are adopted as divine mediators of the problems and desires arising from their mobility. …”
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Le corps entre sacré et profane : la réforme des pratiques pèlerines en Égypte (xixe-xxe siècles) by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…What disturbs the reformers and travellers is that the pilgrims associate devotion with dance, prayer with the merry-go-rounds, the Divine with the obscene pantomime, and miracles with prostitution.Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state and the muslim clerks have joined their efforts to spiritualize the muslim pilgrimages. …”
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Discernment in Origen of Alexandria by P. B. Decock

“…As such it is able to accept divine guidance from the Holy Spirit and the Logos in order to assess the movements of the soul and to manage these correctly so that the soul may preserve what is good and continue to strive for better things. …”
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Pouvoir et prière dans les images byzantines de don by Tania Kambourova

“…Mais comment interpréter la présence de personnages contemporains à la production des miniatures et des fresques au sein même d’un tel espace sacré, destiné à présenter l’histoire sainte/divine? Souvent, le souverain – seul ou en famille, offre ou reçoit un don dans les images. …”
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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…At the end, the recovery of the stolen gold coins both leads to the emergence of the truth and works as a sign of divine reward for Silas’s spiritual progress. Such weaving of the multi-layered theme of gold into the narrative definitely gives birth to an effective poetics which may address several planes of consciousness.…”
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L’ emigrato dasaese: turista di ritorno by Maria Teresa Mara Francese

“…The only possible alternative, or experienced as such, is to rely on divine protection, graced by the repetition of an annual celebration, where the dollars sent home show social status changed emigrants (often absent), which not only feed the ritual, but keep alive a centuries-old tradition. …”
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JUSTICE AS BEAUTY-IN-ACTION? INSIGHTS FROM HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S AESTHETICS AND DRAMATICS by M.J. Havenga

“…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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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“…It also focuses on Gandhi’s critique of Hindu tradition as a powerful buttress of profound social inequality particularly relating to caste and gender; his response to violence in the name of religion and community; and finally his underlying belief that true religion was the individual’s search for the divine and that all religious traditions by contrast have very partial visions of truth. …”
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‘Prophet Ibrahim’s faith and interfaith dialogue: a philosophical inquiry into religious epistemology’. by Md. Delwar Husen

“…While traditional studies focus on his theological and historical relevance, this inquiry uniquely explores his faith as an epistemological process that integrates both divine revelation and rational engagement with the world. …”
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Theology Before and After Bishop Robinson’s Honest to God (1963)

“…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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L’empire de l’imaginaire : la fin du monde et son rapport à l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Lucian Boia by Aurélien Portelli

“…For this historian, the narratives of the end of the world refer, beyond their obvious differences, to the same archetypal structures, which he essentially associates with the imaginaries of divination and escape. Collapsology, which emerged in France in 2015, echoes the prophecies of doom that have been announcing the end of the world for thousands of years. …”
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Katharsis and Phantasia in Plotinus’ Thought by ilker Kisa

“…In this way, reason firstly stops busying itself with the lower content which takes place in phantasia and secondly, thanks to the first step, identifies more and more with the higher content, which also belongs to phantasia as a faculty of the soul which unfolds the content of the divine intellect, Nous. Katharsis’ extended work upwards is also key for the transformation of the lower components of the human soul and reduction of the demands of bodily life to its natural minimum. …”
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Wilno mityczne we współczesnej prozie litewskiej by Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė

“…This article focuses on two modern Lithuanian prose writers, Antanas Ramonas (1947–1993) and Ričardas Gavelis (1950–2002), whose works evoke the two most striking and different images of the same mythical Vilnius – divine and demonic, hopeful and hopeless. These two opposing images of mythical Vilnius reveal two different viewpoints on the world, on history and on the human being in modern Lithuanian literature. …”
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Von Übermensch und Übersinn by Gerhard Schmitt

“…Il convient à cet égard de remarquer tout particulièrement que chez Jung le développement d’une pratique analytique va de pair avec l’élaboration de son image du divin.…”
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Entre ciel et terre : la montagne dans l’imaginaire littéraire arabe médiéval by Monica Balda-Tillier

“…Secondly, the exceptional phenomena that are described as taking place in the mountain are considered by Muslims to be tangible proof of the divine presence in those locations. Finally, inhabitants of the mountains are generally presented as marginal people seeking a refuge from human persecution or simply choosing to live on the margins of society to be closer to God. …”
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La biodiversité dans les paysages viticoles : exemple d’un projet européen mené en France et sur la péninsule ibérique by Soazig Darnay

“…Embodying this initiative, the European BioDivine programme gradually incorporated landscape issues in the scientific study of biodiversity. …”
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Augustine on angelic knowledge by Ovie Valentine Aghoghophia

“…Augustine treated the nature of the knowledge the angels can acquire with their natural angelic faculty and the nature of the knowledge they acquire through the grace of God. Divine illumination is equally enjoyed by the angels and even more than humans do. …”
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Robert Marteau ou la résistance catholique en poésie by Gérard Fabre

“…Résistance à la négation des sources divines de la création artistique. Cette poésie affirme donc l’absolue nécessité du règne de Dieu, dont la présence relativise et limite les pouvoirs devenus exorbitants de l’humain. …”
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