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The orientation as a signature of cultural identity: The historic churches of Lanzarote [PDF]

Tabona 20: 105-128, 2016, 2016
The orientation of Christian churches is a well-known distinctive feature of their architecture. There is a general tendency to align their apses in the solar range, favoring orientations close to the east (astronomical equinox), although the alignments in the opposite direction, namely, with the apse towards the west, are not unusual.
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Monotheistic understanding of the divine in African religion, Christianity and Islam

Acta Theologica, 2000
The article traces the varied expressions of the conception of the Divine in traditional African religion, Islam and Christianity. The focus in particular is on explaining the idea of monotheism in each of these religious traditions.
EW Namukoa, P Verster, PJ Nel
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An Adamic incarnational Christological framework as a theological approach for African contextual ministry

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2016
Many African Christian thinkers and writers are responding to the foreignness of Christ in African Christianity by treating Christ under the traditional African ancestral category.
Magezi, Vhumani, Magezi, Christopher
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The Burning Bush (Ex 3:1–6): A study of natural phenomena as manifestation of divine presence in the Old Testament and in African context

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
The purpose of this article is to attempt to sketch a new reading of Exodus 3:1–6 in African context. After the analysis of the text and various interpretations of the burning bush, this article attempts to survey the various uses of the word fire ...
David T. Adamo
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African Native Institutions and Christianity [PDF]

, 1940

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Lugha-Llama: Adapting Large Language Models for African Languages [PDF]

arXiv
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in a wide range of natural language applications. However, they often struggle to recognize low-resource languages, in particular African languages, which are not well represented in large training corpora. In this paper, we consider how to adapt LLMs to low-resource African languages.
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Liberation or Inculturation – convergent or divergent trends of African Theology?

Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2013
With the shift of the centres of Christianity towards the South it hasbeen increasingly noticeable that talking about Christian theology characterized bya geographical adjectives different from “European /Western” becomes acceptable.However, Christianity
Stanisław Grodź
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A History of the Expansion of Christianity, Vol. VI: The Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia, A. D. 1800-A. D. 1914. Kenneth Scott Latourette [PDF]

, 1945
William W. Sweet
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International African Seminar on the Influence of Christianity in Tropical Africa [PDF]

, 1965

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