How do Psychiatric Staffs Approach Religiosity/Spirituality in Clinical Practice? Differing Perceptions among Psychiatric Staff Members and Clinical Chaplains by Eunmi Lee, Anne Zahn, Klaus Baumann

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The sacral stamp of Greek: Periphrastic constructions in New Testament translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic by Bridget Drinka

“…The New Testament (NT) represents just such a cultural conduit, providing not only a blueprint for Christian social behavior but also a pattern for Christian linguistic expression, providing a new lexicon, a special syntax, a style of its own, simple and spare. …”
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Die Familie – Relikt der Vergangenheit oder Fundament der Zukunft? by Zbigniew Waleszczuk

“…It is the aim of Christian social ethics – as an instrument of evangelization – to draw adequate conclusions resulting in effective actions of Christians. …”
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FATHER VENDELIN VASILJ Some views on philosophy of communism and relations to religion by Ivan Sivrić

“…The context, in which the works were made, is also presented, especially taking into consideration the centuries long neglecting of the Christian social doctrine by the former official science. …”
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Dimensions of diaconia: the public, political and prophetic by Kjetil Fretheim

“…I conclude by arguing that all three approaches need to be critically combined in Christian social work. The tensions between them must be viewed as tensions within diaconia itself. …”
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Pensamiento Social desde la Antropología y Ética en Perspectiva Teológica. Claves para la Pedagogía en el Humanismo-Valores de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia / Social Thought fro... by Agustín Ortega Cabrera

“…</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Christian Social Thought, Social Doctrine of the Church, Ethics, Anthropology, Philosophy.…”
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Formation of Korean Christianity through the Banning of Ancestral Rites by Shinhyung Seong

“…This laid the foundation for Christian social ethics and <i>Hyo</i> (孝, <i>Xiao</i> (Chinese pronunciation), filiality) theology. …”
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Relating to the Poor: Conceptualizations of Christian Diaconal Practice Considered Through the Lens of Human Dignity by Ignatius Swart

“…Second, the article presents separate cases for two conceptualizations of diaconal practice that each in their own right reflect a more profound or developed concern with diaconia as actual Christian social practice: that of Hendrik Pieterse from South Africa and of Susanne Johnson from the United States. …”
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Codex and Contest: What an Early Christian Manuscript Reveals about Social Identity Formation Amid Persecution and Competing Christianities by Nycholas Lawrence David Oliveira, Jacobus (Kobus) Kok

“…To further the academy’s understanding of this ancient codex, this paper will examine the BMC, which comprises 11 different writings, for evidence of early Christian social identity formation. More specifically, it will heuristically apply Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Social Identity Complexity Theory (SICT) to reflect on identity and boundary construction in the BMC. …”
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Social Risks as the Source of Threats and Concerns: The Survey in the Czech Republic by Ludmila Siarda Trochtová, Jiří Pospíšil, Helena Pospíšilová

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Food justice and Christian ethics by Heinrich Bedford-Strohm

“…How deeply this is rooted in the history of Christian social thought was shown by Martin Luther�s writings on the economy which have remained relatively unknown in the churches and in the scholarly world. …”
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Does the end justify the means? Blessed Bishop Hryhoriy Khomyshyn about Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s proceedings in the religious and national fields by Osadczy Włodzimierz

“…Being devoted to his beliefs, Greek Catholic Archbishop mercilessly condemned nationalism and de-Christian social life of the Ukrainian Uniate community. …”
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The Diaconal Work of Sisters Kristína and Mária Royová—An Example of the Link between Christian Anthropology and Social Work by Peter Jusko, Albín Masarik, Ján Nvota

“…This study mainly investigates the Christian (spiritual) basis of the social and charitable activities of the Royová sisters, the beginnings of the institutionalisation of social and charitable work in Slovakia and Serbia through the organisations founded by the Royová sisters, the Christian-social interpersonal contribution of the Roy sisters to the development of Slovak and European social work personified by their cooperation with several personalities of social and charitable work at the international, national, and local levels, and the contribution of the Roy sisters in the creation of women’s, volunteer, and international roots of social and charitable work in Slovakia and Europe. …”
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Financial Constitution Issues in Development of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1948-1949 by I. D. Popov

“…This was significantly influenced by constant objections from the occupying administrations, the position of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), uncertainty in assessing financial conditions, and the Social Democrats’ consistent defense of broad financial powers for the federal center.…”
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Youth at the margins: Introducing a new research initiative in an ongoing south-north collaboration in the context of international diaconia by Ignatius Swart

“…This article holds up the development of an expanding South-North collaboration between researchers from South Africa and the Nordic European countries of Finland, Sweden and Norway as an example of what can also be recognised as a new-found intentional initiative by the International Society for the Research and Study of Diaconia and Christian Social Practice (ReDi) to develop the field of International Diaconia, and, more specifically, of the establishment of particular relationships (South-North and East-South) within this development. …”
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Good Work and Good Works: Work and the Postsecular in George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by Brian Jansen, Hollie Adams

“…Saunders’s “Center for Wayward Nuns” is a potent metaphor in the sense that it suggests that doubt and lack of agency endemic to a fragmented postmodern world do not absolve us of our ethical responsibility, and thus the Christian overtones of Saunders’ work are engaged in a compelling kind of double-critique: both of the “un-Christian” social realities of the world in which Saunders’ working poor toil, but also of the kind of extremist, fundamentalist—even corporatized—Christianity that may emerge out of those social realities.…”
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State paternalism, welfare and social control in the construction of Volta Redonda by Oliver Dinius

“…The discussion highlights the importance of Christian social doctrine for the underlying ideology of welfare paternalism and demonstrates how its doctrinal principles permeated the urban design and the company’s social assistance programs. …”
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Teologické základy lidských práv by Konrad Hilpert

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Recent Policy and Politics of the European Union and the Effect on Welfare - Implications for Research by Heather Roy

“…In this article, which was originally presented as a speech at the 4th International Conference for Research in Diaconia and Christian Social Practice, held in Stockholm in September 2013, an examination is made of the current political and social context of Europe today and the implications for diaconia in general and more specifically the possibilities for greater research as a result. …”
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Diaconal Church Initiatives and Social/Public Welfare in Postwar Japan: A Descriptive Overview by Stéphan Van der Watt

“…With its focus on postwar efforts, this article gives a brief overview that ranges from education to social reform and medical care, all of which were traditionally incorporated under the notion of “Christian Social Welfare” (<i>Kirisutokyō Shakai Fukushi)</i>. …”
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