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An Nzema Mother-Tongue Commentary on the Matthean Beatitudes

open access: yesJournal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology
One of the major challenges facing contemporary Ghanaian Christianity is ineffective discipleship. Consequently, Christianity has little influence on the moral life of its adherents.
Justice Korankye, Isaac Boaheng
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Wiara podstawowym dynamizmem moralnym osoby

open access: yesVerbum Vitae, 2004
In a morał apprehension the faith has got a personal character. The development of person is a dynamic process. It includes an intelectual heritage wherein it realizes itself as well as constant internal dispositions what comes from the nature of human ...
Stanisław Jóźwiak
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Reflections of ethical church leadership through the Beatitudes in the Matthean vision: In conversation with Prof. Francois P. Viljoen

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
This article examines the role of the Beatitudes (Mt 5:3–12) in constructing a framework for ethical church leadership, situating this inquiry within the broader trajectory of New Testament ethics and the scholarship of Professor Francois P.
Walter Maqoma
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Revisiting justice in the first four Beatitudes in Matthew (5:3-6) and the story of the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:21-28): A postcolonial reading

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2005
Reading the Gospel of Matthew from the perspective of postcolonial theory means taking the context of the Gospel seriously. The political and religious circumstances of Palestine under Roman colonization influenced Matthean redaction.
Lazare S. Rukundwa, Andries G. Van Aarde
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Persecution is no blessing: Matthew 5:10–12 as a ‘practical theodicy’

open access: yesIn die Skriflig
About 30 years ago, Hanson argued on linguistic, literary-critical, and cultural grounds, that the term μακάριος in the macarisms should be translated as ‘how honourable!’ rather than ‘blessed’.
Myriam G.P. Klinker-De Klerck
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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 242-266, July 2026.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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A Spiritual Theology of Pastoral Supervision and Spiritual Direction: Incarnational and Redemptive Ministries of Love in Truth

open access: yesReligions
Pastoral supervision and spiritual direction are inherently personal in nature. They reveal a transformative life of spiritual and soul care demanding the formation of theological reflection, healing, guidance, and discernment.
Glenn Morrison
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