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Prophecy and Doubt in Just Above My Head

open access: yesJames Baldwin Review, 2015
Written in the aftermath of the civil rights era’s expansive hopes, James Baldwin’s last novel, Just Above My Head (1979), examines a fundamental issue, the choice between hope and skepticism, or prophecy and doubt.
Christopher Z. Hobson
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An apocalyptic agenda for mission in our time

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2020
Addressing the interest in missional theology and responding to the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this research developed an apocalyptic missional theology for our time.
Arnold M. Meiring
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Trito-Isaiah, penitential prayer and apocalypticism

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2012
An analysis of the research on the compositional development of Isaiah 56 66 indicates that theredefinition of Judean identity played a major role in the formation of these chapters. Scholarsvery often refer to the penitential prayer in Isaiah 63:7 64:11
Pieter M. Venter
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Beastly Boasts and Apocalyptic Affects: Reading Revelation in a Time of Trump and a Time of Plague

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Waxing “biblical,” Donald Trump has described the COVID-19 pandemic as a “plague.” In a different but related register, millions of Christians worldwide have interpreted the pandemic as one of the eschatological plagues prophesied in the Book of ...
Stephen D. Moore
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From Intrinsic to Radical Crisis in the United States : A Cultural Perspective

open access: yesIdeAs, 2013
The various crises the United States went through over the first decade of the century, from the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, the environmental disaster of Katrina to the financial crisis that started in 2008, remind us that America has ...
Jacques Pothier
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Apocalyptic reflections in the studies of the Russian orthodox priest Alexander Men

open access: yesCхід, 2019
The relevance of the article is due to the increased interest in the cultural heritage of the last century. The creative achievements and worldviews of priest Alexander Men, which are a significant component of the spiritual Russian culture, have been ...
Maria Bardyn
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The question of Mark 13 as an apocalypse

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2023
Background: Many researchers accept that the Gospel of Mark is apocalyptic, which necessitates the need to determine whether Mark 13’s eschatological discourse represents an apocalypse.
Marius Nel
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Bringing satellites down to Earth: Six steps to more ethical remote sensing

open access: yesGlobal Environmental Change Advances
To shed light on the politics of remote sensing, a technique often regarded as objective and neutral, the subfield of critical remote sensing has emerged in the social sciences.
Mia M. Bennett   +6 more
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Frau Ava’s Antichrist: Its Composition and Translation into Lithuanian

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 2020
The present article explores Frau Ava’s (1060–1127) apocalyptic poem Antichrist, in which, for the first time in German literature, the opponent of Christ is the protagonist. Antichrist will be Frau Ava’s second poem translated into Lithuanian.
Aleksej Burov, Modestas Kraužlys
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Reconsidering a source of Sir David Lyndsay's The Monarche and its significance in the early Scottish apocalyptic tradition

open access: yesActa Neophilologica
Parallel to the distinctive character of Reformation in Scotland, the Protestant apocalyptic tradition in this country showed an original, nationalist-oriented style, defining itself against both English and French tendencies.
Juan Manuel Castro Carracedo
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