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The book composed of writings generally accepted by Christians as inspired by God and of divine authority. (Webster, 3d ed)
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On June 13, 2025—Friday the 13th—Israel launched a sweeping preemptive strike on Iran, igniting the most direct and devastating war the Middle East has seen in a generation. This paper examines the ideological, political, and theological forces that laid the groundwork for that war, focusing on the role of what we define as Ziocons: a coalition of...
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The New Testament (Greek: Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, from Hebrew: חדשה ברית, lit. - new covenant, new agreement) is a multi-meaning term in Christianity: 1) the second part of the Christian Bible (after the Old Testament), a collection of 27 books written in Koine, presumably between 50 and 120 AD, containing information about the earthly life and teachings...
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En este artículo se toman tres volúmenes de la colección “By-Paths of Bible Knowledge” como caso de estudio para presentar la recepción de las mujeres de la antigua Babilonia (ca. 2000-1500 a.n.e.) como mujeres empoderadas a finales del siglo xix e inicios del siglo xx n.e. Concretamente nos fijamos en los volúmenes de Margaret Elise Harkness (1854...
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discusses the characteristics of the true church according to Christian views, emphasizing the importance of faithfulness to the Word of God as the primary foundation. The true church is a community that faithfully proclaims the Gospel of Christ purely, without addition or subtraction from the teachings of the Bible. This faithfulness serves as the...
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Il existe deux traductions anglaises de la Bible qui utilisent le terme « transgresse » dans 2 Jean 1:9, à savoir la version King James (KJV) et la version New King James (NKJV). En revanche, la plupart des traductions anglaises, y compris la New American Standard Bible (NASB), la English Standard Version (ESV), la New International Version (NIV),...
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This study aims to examine the existence of the Church in the context of salvation history from the perspective of systematic theology, focusing on the role and vocation of the ecclesia as the community of God's people. The background of this study departs from the belief that the Church is not just a religious institution, but has an existential a...
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Decision 2/2024 and 7/2025 are the triumph of (i)rationality and of legalism populism. They are the hypostases of the syllogism of absolute, gross power despising legal rationality. The Court unconstitutionally and undemocratically exercised national sovereignty by determining at its free discretion the 2 concepts of `democracy` and `constitution....
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This thesis investigates, through an interdisciplinary approach, the formation and propagation of structural mechanisms of mass manipulation throughout history-with emphasis on religious, political, media, and technological dimensions-and their consequences for critical thinking and divergent intelligence in contemporary society. The study begins w...
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This was a presentation to the SIL Translation Consultancy Brown Bag lunch held on the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, TX on June 5, 2025. It was a hybrid event. Topics of interest to those working in the field of Bible Translation.
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Resumo Um traço comum entre os seres humanos de todos os tempos e lugares é sua abertura para o Transcendente, que manifesta seu desejo do Absoluto, do Totalmente Outro. Este desejo de estar junto de alguém ou em algum lugar que lhe ofereça proteção e segurança está presente no Saltério da Bíblia Hebraica, tal como testemunha o Sl 15. Trata-se de...
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This article is an editorial response and attempt at interdisciplinary conversation from the perspective of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies to those studying different cultures of mobility in other fields. Each of the four articles that began this special issue feature a relational approach to the study of migration and mobility and share...
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How can insights and theories from contemporary migration research inform the study of biblical texts and extant sources about people on the move? Throughout 2024, the four authors of this article—two biblical scholars, a historian, and an anthropologist—have tackled this question from different angles. This article grows from these ongoing multidi...
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This article examines the critical role of Christ-centered spirituality in shaping a biblical model of Collective Social Responsibility (CSR). Rooted in theological analysis and scriptural interpretation, the research examines how biblical spirituality extends beyond personal devotion to inspire ethical action, justice, and sustainable socio-econom...
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The current research investigates how the Abanyom community views God as the world's creator and preserver, challenging long-standing Western assumptions that Africans lack the capacity to conceptualize a God. While the notion of God within African cosmology has received limited empirical attention, it has not been examined specifically from the pe...
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The Bible is the product of a complex process of oral and written transmissions that stretched across centuries and traditions. This implies ongoing revision of the “original” or oldest textual layers over the course of hundreds of years. Although critical scholarship recognizes this fact, debates abound regarding the reconstruction of the differen...
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In a wide-ranging conversation Pat Bennett and Pádraig Ó Tuama look at how imaginative, non-dogmatic approaches to the sacred text – similar to how we engage with poetry or art – can open up deeper, more embodied, and more surprising encounters with the divine. Ó Tuama advocates reading the Bible not as a singular message to decode, but as a multif...
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This contribution explores the biblical dimension of Youth Catechism/2 Come and See, highlighting its spiritual, historical, and cultural richness, being elements that permeate every page of the Bible. The Bible has always shaped the life and mission of the Church, a truth that cannot be emphasized enough, given its depth and beauty. Following an i...
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The world no longer needed God. In 2045, Cal Eben sat cross-legged in a windowless room stacked with old Bibles and mold-bitten lexicons. Outside, sleek drones murmured like locusts. Inside, the silence pressed like velvet against his skull.
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In today's rapidly globalizing world, the practice of prayer has evolved beyond a personal or local religious act to become a cornerstone of global evangelical activities. What was once considered a purely spiritual exercise is now integrated into the mechanics of mission outreach, cultural engagement, and community transformation. Prayer, once con...
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The book summarizes translation techniques used to render the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of God found in the Bible, into Church Slavonic, Ruthenian, and Russian. These include borrowing the original Hebrew word, semantic translation, and transcription. The author analyses secular and religious texts written in the above languages over the...
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The evangelical method of theology has high urgency in responding to the challenges of the digital age characterised by relativism of truth, the crisis of biblical authority, and the changing culture of communication. Rooted in the principle of Sola Scriptura, this approach emphasises the authority of the Bible as the primary basis in shaping Chris...
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This article explores the hermeneutical challenges and possibilities of reading digital biblical texts (Biblia Digitalia) in Africa, building upon Mazamisa’s concept of dialectica reconciliae. The shift from printed Bibles to Biblia Digitalia is the third major transformation in media technology, following the transitions from orality to literacy a...
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The YouVersion Bible is a free Bible app from Life Church. YouVersion provides a digital Bible integrated with support services for reading the Bible. YouVersion provides a friend facility so users can share and read the Bible together. The completeness of these facilities provides opportunities for elderly congregations to use them personally or w...
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Chinese fables are originally folktales of oral creations that were very popular in the Spring and Autumn (770‒476 BCE) and the Warring States (475‒221 BCE) periods. Many Chinese fables are from the works of Chinese philosophers of the pre-Qin (before 221 BCE) era, and many Chinese tales are collected from the books of Chinese historians, most of w...
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The concept of evil and the fall of man remains a fascinating topic as it illustrates moral complexity , freedom of choice, and its impact on civilization and man's relationship with trans-cendent values. This article aims to analysis the concept of Manichaean dualism and measure it against the concept of the fall of man, according to John Calvin....
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This article employs an unhiding reading methodology to explore the presence of women in Luke’s agrarian parables, specifically focussing on the parable of the sower. By engaging with Van Eck’s research on the realistic reading of the parables in their 1st-century socio-economic context and implementing Du Toit’s unhiding reading, the authors argue...
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Human ear, organ of hearing and equilibrium that detects and analyzes sound by transduction (or the conversion of sound wave electrochemical impulses) and maintains the sense of balance. This research explores the role of the ear in human health. It examines historical data, various clinical conditions related to the ear, and strategies for coping...
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Christian religious education plays a crucial role in shaping and fostering the spiritual growth of teenagers in the church. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of Christian Religious Education in supporting the spiritual growth of teenagers at Gereja Kristus Rahmani Indonesia Jemaat Diaspora Cawang. The research employs a quantitative des...
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Mesut ARSLAN, Kurd Kitêb Çapxane: Weşangeriya Kitêbên Kurdî di Dewra Osmaniyan de (1844-1923), Weşanên Peywend, Wan, 2025. The 19th and 20th centuries, with the development and spread of the printing press, heralded a new era for the Kurdish language: The end of traditional manuscripts and the birth of the printed book. Already in 1787, a Kurdish...
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The critical Historical Method is a crucial approach to exploring and understanding the Bible, bringing together history, culture, and textual analysis to reveal the deeper meaning of the texts and their context. However, the historical critical method is often overlooked because it emphasizes the historical rather than the theological. However, it...
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The fight for women's emancipation has existed for centuries, dormant in the previous era. Still, the sprouting of radical activity in the women's movement gathered impetus and peaked in the late Victorian era. The feminist agitation of the era was a noticeable feature that shocked the Victorian conservative. The term was first used by French drama...
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This research aimed to identify the implementation, optimization, empowerment of technology, to evaluation of the implementation of the integration of Christian Religious Education Learning (PAK) and the Pancasila Student Profile Strengthening Project (P5) in the formation of student character at SMK Kesehatan Reformasi Pontianak. The method in thi...
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Songs play a vital role in human life. This overview explores their characteristics, types, and contexts in which they are sung. Biblical references to songs are analyzed from a contemporary perspective, emphasizing their relevance today. This research presents various forms of singing across different countries. Singing has the positive effect of...
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The Middle Turkic manuscript stored in the First Firkovicz Collection in the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg under accession number Evr. I Bibl. 143 contains a translation of a large portion of the Torah written in the Hebrew script. Two major questions remain to be answered regarding this source. First, in which Turkic language is i...
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The ongoing devastation in Gaza—over 61,000 killed, including nearly 18,000 children—is not only a military and humanitarian catastrophe but a moral indictment of the ideologies and institutions that have enabled it. Within the United States, two key forces have played outsized roles in shaping unwavering political and religious support for Israel’...
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This article explores the concept of the "Bottomless Pit," also known as the Abyss, as a critical element within biblical eschatology and ancient cosmology. Identified as the prison of demonic spirits, the Abyss is portrayed as both a literal and symbolic dwelling place for evil entities awaiting future release. Drawing from scriptural references i...
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Absztrakt: Éppen 200 éve jelent meg Horvát István műve, a Rajzolatok, amelyben nem kevesebbet állít, mint hogy a világ első népe és nyelve a magyar volt. A maga korában ez a teória (a hun és szittya rokonsággal együtt) rendkívül népszerű volt, sokan tényként kezelték, hogy a Biblia nyelve eredetileg a magyar volt, s Kappanhágó, Istókhalma és Kard-h...
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The rebuilding of the third temple in Jerusalem is taking place in 2025. Respect and unity is needed in the Israel family to prevent a disaster will happen just as 2000 years ago with the second temple.The building and destruction of the first, second and third temple was and is all about building up religion, power, greed and money and not about d...
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Review of Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible. By Dalit Rom-Shiloni. Eerdmans, 2021; (ISBN 978-0-8028-7860-1), xviii + 566 pp.
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This explanatory-sequential research aimed to determine the various sectors' difficulties and coping mechanisms during pandemic. Quantitative (Survey) and Qualitative (Narrative Inquiry) Research Designs were used in the study. The respondents of the study were the 105 randomly and conveniently selected individuals from health, agricultural, busine...
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Shashi Tharoor remained where he was - the Abrahamic Secular worshipper of Victorian Imported Night Soil Hindukush Pyramid of Untouchability, Eugenic Laws of 19th century and the Colonial Hindugenocidal English Eugenic Constitution (CHEEC) of the Darulharb of Adharmic Abrahmic Secular India (DAASI - female servant of the iconoclastic trinity - Chri...
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1Sam 16:14–23 is a crux interpretum due to the fact that the evil spirit comes from the Lord. This penomenon is a rather unusual one in the Hebrew Bible, moreover, its grammatical features are also unique and isolated. The text’s statement – i.e. the evil spirit’s tormenting activity is directed by God – raises a serious theological issue abour the...
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What does a 20th-century logician have to do with the heart of Christian theology? Surprisingly, quite a lot. In 1931, Kurt Gödel proved that no formal system capable of expressing arithmetic can also be both complete and consistent. His incompleteness theorems exposed a built-in limitation: there are truths that cannot be proven from within the sy...
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This study investigates how maternal imagery is translated and interpreted in divine metaphors of Twi, Ewe, and Dagbani Ghanaian languages. It analysed the translations of maternal nurturing metaphors in these three indigenous languages through a comparative analysis of key Bible passages (Isa. 66:13, Hos. 11:3-4, and Deut. 32:18), exploring their...
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Worship is a central theme throughout the Bible, serving as the foundation of humanity's relationship with God. This paper explores the linguistic and theological dimensions of worship, tracing its evolution from the Old Testament's covenantal practices to the New Testament's Christ-centered and Spirit-led expressions. By examining key Hebrew terms...
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This article critically examines the Indian constitutional framework with a focus on how postcolonial secularism has displaced Dharmic jurisprudence. By analyzing landmark judicial decisions, the asymmetric application of Articles 25-30, and the colonial legacy of the Indian Constitution, the paper reveals the systematic marginalization of Hindu ci...
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This study aims to analyze the role model of teachers in improving the learning attitudes of students of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Kuis Satu Atap. This study is a type of quantitative research, the population of this study were Protestant Christian students of class VIII of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Kuis Satu Atap, because the total number of students at SMP N...
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In today's Christian worship celebrations, music has an almost inseparable role in the course of worship. However, it is equally important that the minister of church music should have a character that reflects the character of Jesus. If a church musician does not exhibit the character of Christ, he or she can become a stumbling block to the congre...
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The Chinese Civil War (1946–9) and the Korean War (1950–3) contributed to the beginning of Hong Kong’s evolution from a British colony occupying a geographically peripheral position in South China, to a world centre for Chinese Protestant Bible publishing and distribution in the Cold War era. In 1948, the China Bible House (CBH), the de facto natio...
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Despite its ancient and foreign origin, the Bible has managed to integrate so seamlessly into the contemporary Nordic countries that it is seen to form the basis of specifically Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish identity and values. This paper will employ the work of translation scholar Lawrence Venuti on the politics and ethics of translation, and es...
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Bible smuggling, the illicit transportation of religious contraband into the Communist countries of the Eastern bloc, was a marked Cold War phenomenon. At first a peripheral, amateurish pursuit, over the course of the 1970s and 1980s Bible smuggling developed into a transnational network of training camps and safe houses, which used recruitment pra...
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Abstract: The beginning of Georgian writing is rightly connected with ecclesiastical writing. Its important and valuable flow is created by the hagiographic literature, about which a thorough assessment was made in the scientific circles at the very beginning of the philological research, which deals with genre identification, typology, stylistic f...
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The purpose of this paper is to outline when and why the concept of res communes omnium appeared in ancient Roman law and its relevance today, especially in the jurisprudence and legal thinking of the United States of America. It is known from the Bible that the Garden of Eden was intended by God for Adam, Eve and their children. In the Golden Age,...
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Due to the general practice of calling Islam an ‘Abrahamic religion’, many assume (and actually the majority of Muslims would assume) that the Muhammadan religion’s relationship with the issue of fetal protection and the practice of abortion reflects the conservative spirit of the Bible. However, nor the primary Muslim texts, nor the practice of Su...
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This study shows that, although the terms ’human rights’ and ’fundamental rights’ are not found in the Bible, their essential content, the classical human freedoms and values they protect, are in fact an integral part of the Bible. Some of them, such as the protection and conservation of one’s own and those of one's neighbors liberty, body and life...
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The attribution of anthropomorphic characteristics to God in the Hebrew Bible has been a subject of considerable debate among scholars, especially regarding its implications for comprehending divine transcendence and immanence. This study examines the anthropomorphic features of God as depicted in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), while address...
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This study evaluates Thomas Aquinas’ influence on theology and philosophy by examining his background, relationship with Aristotelian thought, and reflections on the Bible. It employs theological and evaluative methodology to analyse and reflect upon Thomas Aquinas’s theological and philosophical influence. The research uses literature and document...
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Ces « méditations » se fondent sur une conviction, une foi : non seulement la Vérité existe, mais de plus, elle est portée par Jésus le Christ, qui est plus spécialement « le Chemin, la Vérité, la Vie ». Un objectif majeur de ces « méditations » consiste à identifier comment nous préparer à recevoir (voire à rencontrer) cette Vérité, même et surtou...
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This paper examines the translation and retranslation of the Bible in both English and Romanian, with a focus on the strategies used to adapt the sacred text for contemporary readers. By analysing two English versions, the New King James Version (1979) and the New English Translation (2001), alongside two Romanian versions, the Dumitru Cornilescu V...
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Ever since the vampire figure appeared on the literary scene, it has been examined in the context of Christianity, as this form of the revenant monster calls for interpretations that address questions of the soul as well as the phenomenon of resurrection and eternal (after)life. Parallel with this approach, the vampire body has also become a focuse...
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The world is changing at lightning speed because of competition from new emerging economies, globalization and technology. On the other hand the maps that define the Church of God and the related financial practices including budgeting, accounting and finance, resources allocation, financial leverage, identification of various sources of funding ha...
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This book has two main sections, namely Ubuntu and sexuality. The first section explores the notion of Ubuntu by first discussing what Ubuntu is and then applying it to suggest a biblical leadership that combines Ubuntu values and New Testament leadership values identified in the ministry of Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul. The leadership is call...
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The attribution of anthropomorphic characteristics to God in the Hebrew Bible has been a subject of considerable debate among scholars, especially regarding its implications for comprehending divine transcendence and immanence. This study critically examines the anthropomorphic features of God as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, especially the Old Tes...
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The Asante-Twi Bible's translation of 'āḇaḏ, and šāmar, can be misleading and a source of motivation for environmental degradation among Asante communities in Ghana. Incidentally, Ghana faces serious environmental crisis where many of her water bodies and forest cover are being destroyed due to illegal mining activities. If a misinterpretation aris...
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Worshipping God in the real sense of it in various religious locations in Nigeria has become a mirage. People are worshipping with fear and intimidation. Terrorists often invade churches and killing innocent citizens. The aforementioned experiences also happened in the early church, but they did not yet discourage. At the end of the tunnel there is...
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Kunsoo Paul Choi's Economics in the Bible offers a unique interdisciplinary exploration that integrates principles of economics with biblical teachings. Drawing from his background in both economics and biblical studies, Choi examines how economic concepts are embedded in biblical narratives and how they can inform contemporary Christian economic e...
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The very latest scholarship on the Swiss Reformation has urged us to resituate the conceptual origins and first articulations of a Reformed Covenant theology in the Zurich of Zwingli, Jud, Pellikan, and Bullinger, rather than in the Geneva of Calvin and Beza. Using insights from the recent literature of early modern memory, book history, and art hi...
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The purpose of this article is to explore a popular Kenyan apophthegm “wacha niongee, initoke”—loosely translated as “let me talk [so that] it leaves me”—in light of Ephesians 4:29: “Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them” (New Living Translat...
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This study sees God never left himself without witness anywhere in the world. The study also rightly observed the reality that is difficult for many Eurocentric biblical scholars to live with as the fact that God has revealed himself in many ways particularly in many religious traditions. Such revelation is meant to prepare the way for the coming a...
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The paper discusses the impact of biblical text translation on the sustainability of faith and practices in Africa. It traces the evolution of biblical translation efforts from early missionary translations to contemporary indigenous efforts and the importance of linguistic and cultural adaptations in shaping biblical interpretation. This research...
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For almost forty years, scholars of the Bible have drawn on the conglomerate field of migration studies to illuminate historical contexts and to exegete biblical texts. This paper recognizes the rich contributions supplied across the decades by such interdisciplinary scholarship. It offers a rejoinder to this work by exploring how biblical scholars...
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This paper is a call to spiritual discernment in a time of deep confusion. Drawing from the biblical accounts of Baʿal—the ancient Canaanite deity whose worship repeatedly lured Israel into idolatry—it reveals that Baʿal was never just a statue or myth, but a spiritual archetype that reemerges in every generation. Today, this same spirit manifests...
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In today’s fast-changing world, the spiritual well-being of students is a growing concern that needs thoughtful attention. Schools play a vital role in helping students grow in faith, but programs must be updated to stay relevant and practical. Understanding how past research can guide this development is key to creating more substantial and meanin...
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This paper is a journey into the depth and richness of the Bible—a sacred text that invites not only faith but fearless inquiry. These fifty questions are not speculative fantasies or theological traps. They are reverent, text-bound explorations crafted to awaken deeper understanding, to challenge assumptions, and to point toward the mystery of God...
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This article explores the biblical and theological distinctions between the terms Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna, all of which are commonly translated as "Hell" in English Bibles but hold different meanings within Scripture. It clarifies that while Gehenna is depicted in the New Testament as a place of eternal torment for the wicked, Sheol refers to the...
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The words ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Hikmat’ are generally used as synonyms, but in fact, they narrate different contents on epistemological grounds. In critical analysis, they both belong to epistemology, which is the branch of philosophy that deals with the questions relating to the sources, clarification of the meanings and definition of knowledge. On these...
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The paradoxical nature of liberation theologies for African Christians has, for some time, been an intense subject of contestation. It has produced some polarised communities and made them acceptable on the basis of biblical interpretation. Liberation theological jargons such as ‘God sides with the poor’ and ‘God is for the oppressed’ seem to exemp...
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Generation Z and Alpha live in the midst of rapid technological developments. This reality demands a new approach in Christian Religious Education to remain relevant and touch the lives of students. This study aims to explore how the adaptation of technology in Christian Religious Education (PAK) learning can increase students' creativity and innov...
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This study introduces BERT-Guided Stylistic Hermeneutics (BGSH), an unsupervised computational framework leveraging masked language models (MLMs) to detect stylistic anomalies within the Pauline epistles. Specifically, DeBERTa models fine-tuned on undisputed Pauline letters compute pseudo-perplexity scores and translation-specific z-score normalisa...
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JIRI MELANTRICH, (de son vrai nom Jiri Cerny Rozdalovicky,1511-1580) : Editeur et imprimeur Tchèque de Prague, à qui l’on doit la publication de plus de 200 livres, issu du milieu ‘’Utraquiste’’ qui créera la célèbre Bible de Mélantrich, fut certainement à l’origine de la création de l’Ordre du Crâne de Petr Vok Rozmberk. On constate, en effet, qu’...
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While Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance through training on massive datasets, they can exhibit concerning behaviors such as verbatim reproduction of training data rather than true generalization. This memorization phenomenon raises significant concerns about data privacy, intellectual property rights, and the reliability o...
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The attribution of anthropomorphic characteristics to God in the Hebrew Bible has been a subject of considerable debate among scholars, especially regarding its implications for comprehending divine transcendence and immanence. This study critically examines the anthropomorphic features of God as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, especially the Old Tes...
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The attribution of anthropomorphic characteristics to God in the Hebrew Bible has been a subject of considerable debate among scholars, especially regarding its implications for comprehending divine transcendence and immanence. This study critically examines the anthropomorphic features of God as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, especially the Old Tes...
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The Bible includes both the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is often referred to as the Hebrew Bible, in which the Song of Songs is one of the most extraordinary work. This study seeks to explore the beauty in the Song of Songs to deeply appreciate the poem by using some of Hegelian aesthetic theories in the complete system o...
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Although the traditional concepts of accuracy, naturalness, clarity, and now acceptability are generally seen as keys to a quality translation, they are not the only consideration. That is, a quality Bible translation, whether oral or written, can only be appropriately assessed according to what the translation aims to achieve. This article defines...
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This paper proposes a radical re-reading of the Bible—not as myth, metaphor, or moral code, but as a record of ontological events triggered by structured knowing. Drawing from recent theoretical work in epistemic ontology, we argue that Scripture presents moment after moment in which coherent intention collapses latent potential into material reali...
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This study examines Eusebius of Emesa’s De arbitrio, voluntate Pauli et Domini passione (Homily I), a fourth-century homily rediscovered in the twentieth century, to elucidate its contribution to the theological debate on free will within early Christianity. While Eusebius, a bishop of the Antiochene school, has been historically overlooked, his ho...
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Raised in a family rooted in Calvinist Protestantism, Friedrich Engels was completely familiar with the Bible. While Marx after the early works focused on researching political economy, Engels maintained an interest in religion-especially Christianity-and published writings on it. His texts on religion combined several purposes. It was part of unfo...
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The Bible teaches us that no human has ever seen God the Father. Nonetheless, there are certain religious texts that imply that God has uncovered Himself to some. The Holy Bible clearly states that no human has ever seen God, and no one can ever see God and live. There are those who explain that God the Father was revealed through Jesus Christ, bec...
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This publication investigates the foundations of microgrid deployment and their strategic roles within modern distribu-tion systems. The study addresses the evolution of Ukraine’s regulatory framework in the context of supporting decen-tralized energy generation and system operation management. It outlines the critical challenges to be solved in th...
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A Grain of Wheat, the third novel by the kĩkũyũ writer Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, is paradoxically part of the extensive tradition of literary texts whose intertextuality with the Bible is evident. The strong presence of Christian symbology in the text is anchored in a series of procedures that imply a direct interrelation both with the processes of colon...
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Social changes and technological advancements, generation Z (Gen Z) teenagers face issues and challenges maintaining their Christian faith, especially with the emergence of progressive Christian thought that offers reinterpretations of traditional teachings that strongly deviate from doctrinal orthodoxy. This thinking often puts forward values of i...
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The transformation of digital leadership in education has become an urgent necessity amid rapid technological advancements and shifting social paradigms. This study aims to identify multiplying factors in digital leadership, examine strategies for accelerating transformation, and integrate Biblical leadership values within the digital context. Usin...
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The article is devoted to one of the outstanding Synodal Russia Bible lecturers of the Vologda Theological Seminary. One of the best students of Gerasim Pavskyi he actively taught 42 years and published two main students' earning books dedicated to the Bible isagogy. His memoirs about the early years in the Olonetz Theological Seminary represent an...
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The article describes a model that takes into account the impact of unauthorised modes of power transformers owned by consumers on the efficiency of the distribution system operator's power grids. A mathematical model for analysing electricity consumption in power transformers has been developed using real electricity consumption schedules of energ...