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The use of οἰκονομία in a missional reading of the Gospel of Luke-Acts

In die Skriflig, 2015
The term οἰκονομία is important term the Gospel of Luke. The word οἰκονομία, in particular its meaning in Luke, is a perpetration and prerequisite for a missional reading of Luke-Acts.
Timohty van Aarde
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Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
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Between Prophecy and Its Realisation. A Reading of Lk 1–2 and Acts 2–3 as a Fulfilment of the Isaianic Narrative

Edinost in Dialog, 2020
The article shows graduality of the parting of the ways between Jewish and Christian tradition by underlining some textual evidence from the Lukan corpus that shows how Luke uses Jewish Scriptures with special regard to Isaiah.
Matjaž Celarc
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Jesus and the Tyche of Jerusalem: A Reflection on the Mission of Jesus in Luke 19:41-44 with special reference to the Mission of Kairos in Greek Mythology

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2014
The paper argues that Luke 19:41-44 has, since the publication of the Kairos Document in South Africa in 1985, been understood in eschatological terms by biblical scholars and missiologists.
Speckman, McGlory
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
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Multipathway modulation of neuroinflammation and oxidative stress by hesperidin in a rat single prolonged stress model of post‐traumatic stress disorder

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Single prolonged stress (SPS) induces post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)‐like neuropathology characterized by oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, astrocytic reactivity, neuronal damage, and reduced neurotrophic support in the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex. Hesperidin counteracts these effects by attenuating lipid peroxidation and pro‐
Godson Emeka Anyanwu, Ogan Christopher Akanaku, Augustine Oviosun, Precious E. Ekwueme, Paul Anyiom Odey, Chima Paul Okechukwu Ugwu, Chinyere Nkemjika Anyanwu   +6 more
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Ancient Christian care for prisoners: first and second centuries

Acta Theologica, 2016
This study deals with the question as to whether first- and second-century sources reflect ancient Christian practices of care for prisoners and in how far these sources help clarify the reasons why Christians cared for prisoners in different contexts ...
T. Nicklas
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Torah quotations common to Philo of Alexandria and the Acts of the Apostles

Acta Theologica, 2013
It is the intention of this contribution to investigate the text form of the LXX Torah quotations that overlap between the works of Philo of Alexandria and the Acts of the Apostles.
G. J. Steyn
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Sustainable Palm Oil Extraction and Trends in the Use of Green Technologies: State‐of‐the‐Art and Future Directions

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Palm oil, which is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis Jacq. palm tree, is the most widely produced vegetable oil in the world. The extraction of this substance typically utilizes the conventional pressing method, a technique that is advantageous due to its low operating cost and simplified process.
Constantino Lucas Queta, Alessandra Lopes de Oliveira, Aline Silva Mello Cesar   +2 more
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Household and meals versus the Temple purity system: Patterns of replication in Luke-Acts

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1991
In Luke-Acts the social codes and concepts associated with food and meals replicate and support the contrasting social codes, interests, and ideologies associated with the Jerusalem Temple, on the one hand, and the Christian household, on the other.
J. H. Elliott
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