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Missional parenting and missional fatherhood as a buffer against father absence and fatherlessness in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesDiversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
This paper focuses on missional parenting and fatherhood. In the 21st century, families are undergoing multiple crises, with many of them experiencing the absence of a fatherly presence. As a result, numerous missiologists emphasise the role of church as
Fazel Ebrihiam FREEKS
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Sustaining Breastmilk Expression and Direct Feeding at Breast for Very Low Birth Infants: A Qualitative Exploration of Parental Perspectives

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT In Ireland, while most women express milk for their preterm very low birthweight (VLBW) infants, only a few are discharged home exclusively receiving mothers' own milk, and even fewer are engaged in direct feeding at breast (DFAB). This is in the context of Ireland having one of the lowest breastfeeding initiation and sustenance rates in the ...
Maria Noonan   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconciliation and renewal in Roger T. Forster : the doctrine of Atonement in the teaching and practice of a restoration theology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Over the past fifty years, Charismatic Renewal has represented a significant development in English Christianity. While this has prompted a number of investigations, few have touched on the traditional Evangelical distinctives of the new birth and ...
O'Sullivan, Anthony Daniel Forster
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Absent Grief, Manic Undoing, and the Transgenerational Transmission of Unclaimed Experience: A Cryptic Reading of Murakami's Tony Takitani

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Trauma and loss constitute recurring themes in both Murakami's fictional and non‐fictional writing. In the short story Tony Takitani, Murakami portrays a father and son confronting trauma and loss in the aftermath of the Second World War and the nuclear devastation of Japan.
David Potik
wiley   +1 more source

God’s and human fatherhood in the terms of st Augustine

open access: yes, 2015
The presented article consists of two main parts. The first one describes the characteristic elements of God’s fatherhood as it is seen by St. Augustine.
Swoboda, Antoni
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The Fatherhood of God in Fourth-Century Pro-Nicene Trinitarian Theology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Not until the fourth century did the fatherhood of God become an issue of sustained analysis in Christian theology. This thesis explores the distinctiveness of the Father within four representative Trinitarian theologies: Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary
SMITH, D.,BLAIR
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Factors Affecting Decision‐Making to Have Children in Iran: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Fertility is not only a biological process; it is a multidimensional phenomenon shaped by complex and often contradictory factors, such as cultural norms and economic conditions. Decision‐making about childbearing not only affects couples’ lives but also shapes the future of their families and societies. This study examines
Shirin Shahbazi Sighaldeh   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Poetic theology of Jan Paul II: semiotic threshold and visualization of abstractions / Поэтическая теология Яна Павла II: семиотический порог и визуализация абстракций

open access: yesВизуальная теология
The central issue of the research is the question of the semiotic threshold ‒ the boundary between semiotic phenomena and no-sign territory (Umberto Eco), where man stops trying to understand metaphysical entities.
Elena Brazgovskaya / Елена Евгеньевна Бразговская
doaj   +1 more source

God Created Man - a Biblical View of Fatherhood

open access: yes, 1991
In his homily the Cardinal stresses the thought that it is the husband who is called upon, today even more that ever, to live for his family, to serve it with all his heart, all his soul, and all his strength.
Franjo Kuharić, Kuharić, Franjo
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