A brief overview of Bible translation in South Africa by E. A. Hermanson

“… Christianity came to South Africa in 1652, but missionary outreach to the indigenous population only began in earnest in the 19th century. …”
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Marius’ ‘grammar of assent’: Pater’s Dialogue with Newman by John Coates

“…It is generally acknowledged that Newman’s influence was a significant factor in Pater’s rapprochement with Christianity in the 1880s. Drawn to Newman’s personality, Pater also found his intellectual approach congenial. …”
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Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Thought: Policy Considerations for Nigeria by Wale Olajide

“…The essay further connects this traditional Yorùbá wisdom to contemporary procreative practices of Yorùbá Christians and Muslims, and their interpretations of scriptural injunction to be fruitful and multiply. …”
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Les rituels en question dans la relation éducative : rupture des liens, maintien du lien, instauration de nouveaux liens by Christiane Montandon

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Życie i dzieło Marcina Lutra a spór wokół tez i narodzin Reformacji by Wojciech Miedwid

“…Luther and his struggle with visible religious abuses didn’t have to end in a split in the Church, because the reform movement was meant to be a renewal of Christianity.…”
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Vyandsliefde of geweld: oor die politiek van die historiese Jesus by E. Scheffler

“… The fact of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth is recognised in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Nevertheless these religions are all in one way or another involved in violent conflicts that still ravages the present-day world. …”
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Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective by T. Shingange

“…A clarion call was then made to shift Christianity’s centre of power from the Northern continents to the South. …”
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Du châtiment à la vengeance : Le prince et la vérité du crime à la fin du Moyen Âge by Marie-Hélène Méresse

“…At the end of the Middle Ages, while the royal power gradually strengthens and centres around the figure of the prince, his political action remains ruled by the christian morality and the purpose of the common good. …”
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Czy zasada „sola Scriptura”pomaga czy przeszkadza w zjednoczeniu chrześcijaństwa? by Dariusz Kazimierz Bartoszewicz

“…This is not only a source of knowledge but also source of faith. Contemporary hermeneutics was initiated by Protestant philosophers and theologians. …”
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Car la Lettre tue mais l’Esprit vivifie : une relecture des textes bibliques selon Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…She was convinced that the Pharisees had not disappeared with the Advent of Christ and, in her novels, she used her own, sometimes unorthodox, interpretation and rewriting of the Gospels to convert the Pharisees of her own time to the true essence of Christianity. Indeed, her Unitarian education granted her a greater freedom than most of her contemporaries in terms of biblical exegesis, as we can see in many of her works, but most particularly in Ruth, in which the eponymous heroine, a fallen woman, is not only described as a Magdalen but soon turns into a Madonna and then a Christ-like figure.…”
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Les violences seigneuriales dans les Grandes Chroniques de France de Jean de France duc de Normandie : première approche by Christiane Raynaud

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When the Stoic Chameleon Came Across the Cylinder. Stoicism and the Matter of Confessions by Ádám Smrcz

“…Lipsian Neostoicism, hence, was not only intended to harmonize Stoicism with Christianity in general – as mainstream scholarship holds –, but with particular confessions as well.  …”
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La valeur du corps saint d’après les Vitae des mulieres religiosas des Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…Far from the usual clichés about Christianity in the medieval West, hagiographic literature attests to the value of the body, including that of women, at least if they were holy. …”
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De la sangre al oro : la transubstanciación del cristianismo y del capitalismo en la comida ritual huichol (México) by Frédéric Saumade

“…The author, ruling out any essentialist perspective, demonstrates that the three pillars of the Hispano-Western power – cattle, money, Christianity – have been integrated in a ritual cycle that gathers and sets in motion food, sacrificial flows, religious believes and relations of power. …”
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market? by Thibaut Dubarry

“…We show how Pentecostalism, in contrast to traditional forms of Christianity, is par excellence involved in the immanent/horizontal affairs of believers’ lives. …”
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Ecumenism from Below by Herbert Moyo

“… This article explores ecumenism from below as demonstrated by women’s leagues in Zimbabwe and South Africa where Christians from different denominations worship together once every week. …”
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Intersemiotic Translation: From Medieval Poetry to Modern Movie by Leila Nik Nasab

“…Some events, actions, reactions, and themes are repeated in the screenplay by the filmmaker, while others have been altered in terms of the storyline and contemporary culture, and some parts have been creatively added to the script. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…The second article, by Natalie Laub and Christian Hagist, applies Generational Accounting to analyse whether and to what extent current policies put heavier burdens on the shoulders of future generations compared to current generations. …”
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Révision de Jane Eyre comme métacommentaire philosophique dans les romans d’Anita Brookner by Eileen Williams-Wanquet

“…But Brookner’s text is a re-vision of Brontë’s novel, as of other novels set in the tradition of the classic realist text and of romance, which have Cartesian rationalism and Christianity as philosophical underpinnings. Brookner reverses the poetic justice of Jane Eyre, which is re-contextualised to fit a new moral landscape in which God is dead as ultimate justification for virtuous conduct. …”
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Prognostic Value of Postpercutaneous Coronary Intervention Murray-Law-Based Quantitative Flow Ratio by Daixin Ding, PhD, Jinlong Zhang, MD, PhD, Peng Wu, PhD, Zhiqing Wang, MD, PhD, Huiping Shi, MSc, Wei Yu, PhD, Xinyang Hu, MD, PhD, Jeehoon Kang, MD, Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, Chang-Wook Nam, MD, Joon-Hyung Doh, MD, Bong-Ki Lee, MD, Weon Kim, MD, Jinyu Huang, MD, Fan Jiang, MD, Hao Zhou, MD, Peng Chen, MD, Lijiang Tang, MD, Wenbing Jiang, MD, Xiaomin Chen, MD, Wenming He, MD, Sung Gyun Ahn, MD, Myeong-Ho Yoon, MD, Ung Kim, MD, You-Jeong Ki, MD, Eun-Seok Shin, MD, Seung-Jea Tahk, MD, Jun Pu, MD, William Wijns, MD, PhD, Jian’an Wang, MD, PhD, Bon-Kwon Koo, MD, PhD, Shengxian Tu, PhD

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