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Preaching the Impossible in the Face of the Unthinkable: Nonviolence, Love, and Thanksgiving in a Coptic Easter Sermon

Religions
This essay examines the Holy Monday sermon by Boules George, a senior priest at St. Mark Church in Cairo, that was preached the day after the Palm Sunday suicide bomb attacks against St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Tanta and St. Mark Coptic Orthodox
J. Sergius Halvorsen
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Functions of style in St. Augustine’s Christian rhetoric [PDF]

Diacronia, 2015
The spread of Christianity determined major cultural changes all over Europe as well as in the entire world. Without further dwelling on the relationships between the new religion and the classical culture, we will show that, in the art of eloquence, the
Ioan Milică
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Gerhard Lohfink’s Interpretative Key to the Sermon on the Mount

Verbum Vitae, 2021
The purpose of this article is to elicit and analyze the main interpretative key used by the German exegete Gerhard Lohfink in his reading of the Sermon on the Mount.
Marian Szczepan Machinek
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Language and Stylistic Features of the Orthodox Media Sermon

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2022
The author presents an analysis of the linguistic and stylistic features of the Orthodox media sermon of the famous priest Dimitry Smirnov, posted on his multimedia blog.
Alexandra S. Makarova
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ISSUE OF THE MEANING OF HUMAN LIFE AND ITS UNDERSTANDING BY IVAN PROKHANOV

Освітній дискурс, 2020
The article focuses on the preacher I. S. Prokhanov. Among his preaching heritage, audio - sermon "What is the meaning of your life?" is preserved to this day. This sermon is practical.
Nataliia Mariukhno
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A Depersonalised Object of Hope in a Funeral Sermon

The Person and the Challenges, 2018
In this article, the author calls attention to a danger of proclaiming a depersonalised object of hope in a Christian funeral sermon, which he does not consider to be a legiti- mate Christian practice.
Albín Masarik
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I Know My Redeemer Lives: A Case of Christological Commitments in Christian Preaching of the Book of Job

International Journal of Homiletics, 2022
This article explores Christian interpretation and preaching of Job 19:25–27 as a case in which christological commitments of the Christian faith come into tension with the pre-Christian meanings of the text.
Amy McLaughlin-Sheasby
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Editorial: Beatific Vision

TheoLogica, 2018
‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God’ (Matthew 5.8; NRSV), so says Christ at the beginning of his greatest sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. But just what it is to be pure in heart and what it is to see God, he never explains.
David Efird, David Worsley
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Enea, la Sibilla e Dante: primi appunti su un quaresimale virgiliano

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2019
The article represents a first exploration of what can be defined the Lenten sermon collection of Aeneas, a text held in an incomplete form in Assisi, Biblioteca del Sacro Convento, Fondo Antico, ms. 557.
Pietro Delcorno
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Praising the poor and blaming the rich: A panegyric reading of Luke 6:20–49 in Malawian context

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The article presented a panegyric reading of the Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20–49) in the Malawian context. It observed that, unlike its Matthean counterpart (Mt 5–7), the Sermon holds an insignificant place in African hermeneutics.
Louis Ndekha
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