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Paradigm of Precatechesis of People with Anomalies and Peculiarities in Mental and Physical Health (Severely Ill, Mentally Handicapped, or Goners): Practice of the Early Church and Present-Day Experience [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2012
The article examines the paradigm of precatechesis and main characteristics of the precatechesis process in cases of severely ill or dying people and precatechumens with anomalies in mental health.
Zoya Dashevskaya
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La ministerialità laicale nel cammino della Chiesa italiana

Theologica Leoniana, 2023
Ricollocando la questione della ministerialità battesimale nella recente storia, si attesta l’attualità profetica del documento CEI «Evangelizzazione e ministeri» (1977), di cui si individuano quattro indicazioni valide ancora oggi: la finalità ...
Matteo Maria Zuppi
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 1, no. 7 [PDF]

, 2016
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Rainisoalambo, Ravelonjanahary, and Volahavana Germaine (Nenilava):
Miller Sigg, Michèle, Rasoanalimanga, Berthe Raminosoa   +1 more
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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Establishing the Lay Ministry of Catechists in the Church: Preserving Tradition in New Circumstances

Religions
This article, including the Introduction and Conclusion, consists of five parts. The first part discusses the role of the catechist in the early Church and its significance in the process of faith education, particularly during the preparation for ...
Denis Barić
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Testimonia Koleksiyonları ve Hıristiyan Apolojetik-Polemik Eserlerdeki Şahit-Metinlerin Kullanımı/Testimonia Collections and Using Proof-text in Christian Apological Literature

Oksident, 2023
The early Christians compiled lists of selected passages from the Jewish scriptures and preserved them as sacred writings. When the content of these extract collections is analysed, the anti-Jewish apologetic-polemic characteristic stands out.
Zeynep Yücedoğru
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Being the Body of Christ [PDF]

, 2018
...catechumenal formation is not a dress rehearsal for discipleship, but is discipleship itself. Catechumenal formation is ministry – the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with those who need to hear it most.
Duckworth, Jessicah Krey
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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The Polish Association of Catechists as a Promoter of the Progress of Professional Competencies in Religious Education in Galicia in the First Decade of the 20th Century

Religions
At the end of the 18th century, due to the neighbouring states of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, Poland lost its independence. Despite not being represented on the political maps of Europe, its citizens embarked on numerous initiatives that fostered their
Roman Ceglarek, Michał Borda
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Isaac Olsen – The First Missionary among the Sami People in Finnmark?

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019
This article deals with Isaac Olsen, a Norwegian who was an itinerant catechist and teacher among the Sami people in Finnmark, Northern Norway. The author claims that Isaac Olsen, as a forerunner to the Sami missionary Thomas von Westen, in fact was the ...
Liv Helene Willumsen
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