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Monasticism—Then and Now

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The monastic tradition has its roots in the New Testament practices of withdrawing into the desert, following a celibate lifestyle and disciplines of fasting.
John Binns
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Traversing a Tightrope between Ecumenism and Exclusivism: The Intertwined History of South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Nyasaland (Malawi)

open access: yesReligions, 2021
During the first few decades of the 20th century, the Nkhoma mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa became involved in an ecumenical venture that was initiated by the Church of Scotland’s Blantyre mission, and the Free Church of Scotland’s ...
Retief Müller
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The other’s humanity with or without the other’s religiosity? Reflections on the affirmation and limitation of human dignity in early Afrikaner missionary discourse in Central Africa

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2021
Taking Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on early human uniqueness in relation to symbolic or religious awareness as a starting point, this article raises a question whether an implicit connection between humanity and the capacity for religiosity had anything
Retief Müller
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Conflict, epidemic and faith communities: church-state relations during the fight against Covid-19 in north-eastern DR Congo

open access: yesConflict and Health, 2022
Background Understanding and improving access to essential services in (post)-conflict settings requires paying particular attention to the actors who occupy the space left ‘empty’ by weak or deficient State institutions.
Sadiki Kangamina   +6 more
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The Coptic Church in South Africa: The meeting of mission and migration

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Previously identified as an entrenched Egyptian community, Copts have propelled themselves into the greater Africa through two main phenomena: migration and mission.
David A. Ogren
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‘Bolszewizm starożytności’, czyli chrześcijaństwo jako rewolucja. Perspektywa Nowej Prawicy Alaina de Benoist – wybrane aspekty

open access: yesStudia Religiologica, 2021
“The Bolshevism of Antiquity” – Christianity as Revolution. The Perspective of Alain de Benoist’s New Right: selected aspects The topic of the article is the interpretation of Christianity by Alain ...
Paweł Bielawski
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Christianity in the Arab World

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1998
As Prince Charles commented in his opening words, "Jordan has long been conspicuous as a land of tolerance and peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths," a coexistence increasingly abused by extremists of all three faiths included in the ...
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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FOUR CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING THE SOCIALLY MARGINAL IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY REFLECTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2020
The social dynamics of the world of early Christianity is characterised by the limit of upward mobility and social disparity between classes in terms of access to both material resources such as lands and funds and nonmaterial resources such as honour ...
I.C. Berg
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The (non-)translatability of the Holy Trinity

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
This article considers the ambiguous translatability of the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity. The theme of the Trinity, as a central Christian doctrine, is brought into conversation with the so-called ‘translatability thesis’ regarding Christian ...
Retief Müller
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Theological Libraries and “The Next Christendom:” Connecting North American Theological Education to Uses of the Book in the Global South

open access: yesTheological Librarianship, 2008
Survey of the past thirty years of librarian literature on the documentation of world Christianity indicates a number of trends in theological librarianship, including a relative inattention to the connection between the documentation of world ...
John B. Weaver
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