Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case by Gustavo Candela, Olga Holownia, Max Odsbjerg, Mirjam Cuper, Nele Gabriëls, Katrine Hofmann, Edward J. Gray, Sally Chambers, Mahendra Mahey

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The unified body of Christ as Biblical metaphor for being church by Lourens Schoeman

“… The church, as faith community, is described with the metaphor of one body, with all members interlinked to each other, helping each other, praying for each other, serving each other. …”
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Single-cell analysis identified key macrophage subpopulations associated with atherosclerosis by Zhao Zhenzhen, Qin Yuelong, Wu Rui, Li Wenwu, Dong Yujiang

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Stuart Cloete's construction of Voortrekker religion in Turning Wheels by F. Hale

“…Cloete depicted these migrants as people of faith whose removal to a new Canaan entailed both internal strife and repeated clashes with indigenous African tribes. …”
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The Seventh Ecumenical Council and the veneration of icons in Orthodoxy by A. Nicolaides

“…Icons portraying God’s grace are sanctifying and help affirm the faith of Orthodox believers. Icons are a concrete theology that instructs and leads believers to a spiritual reality and ultimately sanctify them as they transform them. …”
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Dialog religijny w turystyce by Maciej Ostrowski

“…It is therefore necessary to prepare tourists for a dialogue with representatives of these other worldviews in order to help the tourists’ personal faith understanding and maybe even deepen it. The author introduces the fundamental principles, objectives, and conditions for a dialogue among tourists. …”
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Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu by P.G.J. Meiring

“…The role of religion in establishing truth and working towards justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation was controversial, but for the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, it was inconceivable to embark on the journey of reconciliation without faith in Jesus Christ, the ultimate Reconciler. …”
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Tong Hao—an Asian Vegetable Expanding in Florida by Guodong Liu, Qingren Wang, Bonnie Wells, Yuncong Li, David Dinkins

“… Tong Hao (Glebionis coronaria) is a member of the daisy family and therefore a relative of lettuce. …”
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Preaching: Truth sharing as a prophetic voice by M. Nel

“…He explored the work of three homileticians and eventually brought them in conversation with the ecclesiology of Karl Barth – in developing a “missional homiletics of witness” (Johnson 2015:139) – which I observe to include prophetic preaching that will challenge communities of faith towards missional faithfulness and transformation. …”
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Religions as a source of (dis)order by J. Urbaniak

“…Isn’t it possible to trust in the midst of the multi-ordered reality of world faiths while acknowledging the presence (in all religions) of the untruth despite all the truth? …”
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Being Reformed today? by D.J. Smit

“…It engages with important historical figures and documents (Calvin, Barth, Barmen) as well as more contemporary works and statements (Wolterstorff, Niebuhr, Leith, Gerrish, Plasger, Welker, Nimmo and Fergusson, Boesak, Botman, Belhar, Kitwe, Debrecen, Accra) on being Reformed. It concludes by raising three challenges to being Reformed today, namely whether it can find the necessary normativity to self-critically engage its own tradition, whether the deepest convictions and passions of the Reformed faith still make sense in the world today, and whether there is the will within the Reformed community to practise this kind of being in the world today. …”
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Mentoring student teachers within Ireland’s further education and training sector by Deirdre Tinnelly

“…At present the voice of mentors is underrepresented within Irish research. This interpretivist phenomenological analysis (IPA) study is based on semi-structured interviews with four mentors, and was underpinned by Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, and capital. …”
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Exploring the practical theological study of congregations by W. J. Schoeman

“… The first congregation was formed in Jerusalem, giving rise to faith communities throughout the New Testament. In the ensuing two millennia, congregations are found worldwide. …”
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'n Narratiewe pastorale terapie met depressiewe persone by JD Crafford, DJ Kotzé

“…The client is eventually encouraged to form a new and positive faith narrative. Two case studies exemplify this way of doing pastoral therapy with people experiencing depression. …”
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Concerning miracles: An existential analysis of some critical insights from Hume and Lewis by N.U. Ukwamedua

“…However, flowing from these, this article reasons that the basis of acceptance of miracles is no scientific proof but a living faith that trusts the person, role and function of God in human life. …”
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Televising the Space Race in Francoist Spain: Sebastià Estradé and the “Friends of Outer Space” (1967-1969) by Gorostiza Santiago

“…The article examines three key dimensions of Amigos del Espacio: the celebration of Spanish science and technology; the portrayal of the relationship between Spain and the United States; and the program’s integration of Catholic faith with the popularization of space science.…”
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Higher Orbital Integrals, Cyclic Cocycles and Noncommutative Geometry by Yanli Song, Xiang Tang

“…We introduce a construction of higher orbital integrals in the direction of higher cyclic cocycles on the Harish-Chandra Schwartz algebra of G. We analyze these higher orbital integrals via Fourier transform by expressing them as integrals on the tempered dual of G. …”
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Mission among the Jews by A. van de Beek

“… The author discusses whether the issue of mission among the Jews deals with the basic question of mission or whether it is the core of the Christian faith. Although both Jews and Christians reject the idea and (more so) mission among the Jews, the author strongly argues for its need, for mission is not the expansion of ideas or cultures, but the telling of the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection. …”
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Mradi wa Kutunga Tamthilia ya "Mama Mkwe’’. by Tusasibwe, Bosco

“…Kudhihirisha ubunifu wa kazi za fasihi unaotokana na umilisi wa ujifunzaji wa fasihi bunilizi ya Kiswahili, Kuchangia idadi ya Tamthilia za Kiswahili ambazo zimeandikwa katika mazingira ya Uganda kwa ajili ya kukuza na kuendeleza ujifunzaji, ufundishaji na usomaji wa kazi za fasihi ya Kiswahili Uganda, Kueleza maswala ya kimaisha ya binadamu katika mazingira yake, changamoto na ukombozi wake wa kujenga maisha bora…”
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Memórias sobreviventes à “Solução Final”: reflexões inspiradas em “A mulher de pés descalços” de Scholastique Mukasonga by Anita Maria Pequeno Soares

“…Nesse ano, quase um milhão de ruandeses foram brutalmente assassinados nas lutas fratricidas entre os tutsis e os hutus. Os conflitos entre tais grupos já vinham escrevendo a história do país com letras de sangue e o mundo falhou em evitar a “solução final” perpetrada contra os tutsis. …”
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