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A More Future‐Oriented Legislature? The Impact of a Permanent “Future Committee” on the Temporal Focus of MPs

open access: yesLegislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 4, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Political short‐sightedness is commonly considered a problem for democracies struggling with long‐term challenges, but few proposed cures for political myopia have been implemented. We study the world's first and only genuinely institutionalized legislature‐based “future committee”, Finland's Committee for the Future (CF). Our outcome variable
Chris Hanretty, Vesa Koskimaa
wiley   +1 more source

Almsgiving as a Formative Practice of Repentance for Christian Discipleship: the Gospel of Luke and Daniel 4:24

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2021
In this article, I argue that almsgiving is an important formative practice of repentance for the Christian disciple that leads the disciple to place one’s faith in God, to seek repentance for one’s sins, and subsequently disposes one to the reception of
James Stroud
doaj  

Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 507-524, October 2025.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
wiley   +1 more source

“I Thank God We're Rich”: Justifying Economic Inequality in an Evangelical Congregation

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 303-316, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Christianity has been the inspiration for a variety of responses to economic inequality in the United States and beyond. However, evangelicalism has been associated in the literature with consistent justification of unequal economic circumstances.
Dawson P. R. Vosburg
wiley   +1 more source

Jesus - Kind van God, Vaderloos in Galilea

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2001
This article consists of four sections. Firstly, it reflects on the public debate regarding Jesus' alleged illegitimacy. The article argues that illegitimacy here refers to fatherlessness. Secondly, Joseph is focused on.
A.G. van Aarde
doaj   +1 more source

Genre en plot georiënteerde narratief-kritiese eksegese van Evangeliemateriaal: Inleiding tot narratiewe kritiek

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2006
Genre and plot oriented exegesis of Gospel material: Introducing narrative criticism This contribution to methodology and hermeneutics, consisting of two articles, aim to argue for combining historical criticism and narrative criticism. The first article
Andries G. Van Aarde
doaj   +1 more source

Typological Classification of the Cyrillic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books with the Gospel Texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper presents the rules for typological classification of Slavonic manuscripts and early printed books with the Gospel text. It enumerates different types of the books with the Gospel and sometimes also with other parts of the Holy Scripture ...
Ostapczuk, Jerzy
core   +1 more source

Sketse van ’n pastoraat van narratiewe betrokkenheid in die Lukasevangelie met besondere klem op die Saggeusverhaal

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2008
Images of a pastorate of narrative engagement in the Gospel of Luke with special reference to the story of Zacchaeus Important new developments have occurred during the last few decades within practical theology and in particular within pastoral ...
J. A. van den Berg, R. de Wet
doaj   +1 more source

Reading Luke from the margins: ‘Dialectica Reconciliae’ and anti-imperial optics compared

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article presents a comparative theological analysis of two South African readings of the Gospel of Luke, each shaped by distinct socio-political contexts.
Kenosi Patson Motuku
doaj   +1 more source

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