God’s Alterity and the Particularity of Christ by Björn Vikström, Elli Barsnes

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Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Although he chose historical settings in medieval France and eighteenth-century Germany for his tales, they reflect recent debates about the disappearance of the sun and the folkloristic animalism of Apollo the nature god. Furthermore, Pater is engaging in a complex geopolitical argument, playing out German, French and English culture against each other, as he traces the survival of the pagan gods after the onset of Christianity. …”
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Theology Before and After Bishop Robinson’s Honest to God (1963)

“…In retrospect, Robinson’s book is to be judged a significant marker in a process of ever-changing theological thought. …”
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Conceptualising religion in the 21st century: Examining the proposal of Mark C. Taylor in After God

“…Taylor’s theory of religion as presented in After God. Taylor redescribes religion as an emergent, complex, adaptive network – a term he adopts from the biosciences and physics. …”
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Preaching the Word of God in the Polish synodal synthesis by Leszek Szewczyk

“…This study aimed to extract from the syntheses mentioned above issues concerning the nature of the homily and its position in the liturgy, the preacher of the Word of God, the general assessment of preaching in Poland, as well as the assessment of the content and form of homily preaching. …”
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Jezus, de unieke drager van Gods Geest by G. D. J. Dingemans

“…Christ is the human face of God. A pneumachristology is more dynamic than the doctrine of the two natures and gives more room for the idea that Jesus was a real man (vere homo). …”
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God’s meaning is love: The mystical theology of Julian of Norwich by P. Sheldrake

“…It suggests that the key to her mystical theology is that a true “knowledge” of God involves loving engagement with God rather than abstract intellectual enquiry. …”
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PEUSIJUEK INDIGENOUS PSYCHOTHERAPY: Being Oneness to Nature in God’s Acceptance by Saifuddin Dhuhri, Linur Ficca Agustina, Nurul Khansa Fauziyah

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John of the Cross and Emmanuel Lévinas: The QUEST for God beyond Being by D.B. Perrin

“…Simply put, both of these men refused to start their reflection on life and God from self-contained abstract principles; rather, their point of departure was the ambiguity and complexity of the character of human nature. …”
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River God Propaganda in a Septimius Severus Statue from Perge by Ahmet ÇELİK

“…However, with this extremely unique beard in the statue belonging to Fountain F2, Septi­mius Severus resembles a river god, and therefore, it may have been propagandised that he was a river god who brought water to the city or someone who resembled a river god.…”
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Transforming Presence: Seeing God’s body in Books I and II of Psalms by C. Brown Jones

“…What might we make thereof? After a brief consideration of method, the article summarises the body language specific to God in Books I and II. …”
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Praising God or singing of love? From theological to erotic allegorisation in the interpretation of Canticles by H. Ausloos

“…Although this contrast between the terms ‘literal’ and ‘allegorical’ appears frequently in the literature on Canticles, the present article argues that this terminology seems to be inadequate for Canticles at any rate: reading Canticles either ‘literally’ or ‘allegorically’ is an expression of a false dilemma with respect to this book. …”
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‘His Own Nearer Household Gods’: Pagans, Christians, and Marius the Epicurean’s Religious Hermeneutics by Jude Wright

“…Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean (1885) may be seen as part of the subgenre of the all but forgotten Historical Novel of Early Christianity, which is represented by such lights as Newman, Kingsley, and Wiseman. …”
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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

“…In his novel A curse from God (1970) Ngubiah challenges obliquely but unmistakably the long-accepted position of his fellow Gikuyu (and first national leader of independent Kenya) Jomo Kenyatta, particularly as argued in Facing Mount Kenya, that a return to tribal folkways was a precondition to economic and social upliftment. …”
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Text-image Iconicity in Assurnasirpal II’s Northwest Palace by Robin Baker

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Mom Knows More than a Little Ghost: Children’s Attributions of Beliefs to God, the Living, and the Dead by Dawoon Jung, Euisun Kim, Sung-Ho Kim

“…In a location-change false-belief task, which involved a story of a mouse protagonist that was either eaten by an alligator or not, 4- to 6-year-old Korean children (<i>N</i> = 114) were asked about the mental states of the protagonist, an ordinary adult (mom), and God. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH OF RAISING GODLY CHILDREN TO FACE PRESENT CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE by UJATA SHAIBU AMOS, LADI UKA UJATA

“…In cultivating strong characters which children are better equipped to navigate the challenges they may face and demonstrate godly traits in their interactions with others. …”
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Ransomed by God into His household: interpreting the ransom imagery in 1 Peter within the economic context of its author and addressees by Fika J. van Rensburg

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Translation as (Mis)interpretation: The Case of the Philosophy of the Late Fichte by Іван Іващенко

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