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Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-10-11 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12373

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“Clean” Collections “干净”的集合

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12378

Roger Fayet

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Weeds Among the Wheat 麦田里的杂草

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12376

Meinolf Schumacher

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Field Notes from Standing Rock 来自立岩的野外笔记

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-09-14 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12365

Lily Oster

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The Concept of a Non-Material Reality 非物质现实的概念

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12368

Eugene P. Trager

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The Fourth Last Thing Revisited 第四件最后重访的事

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12370

Peter Heinegg

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A Sinful People 有罪的人

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12372

Peter Heinegg

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Responding to Freud 对弗洛伊德的回应

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12366

Wenwen Guo

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On Reverence and its Discontents 论敬畏及其不满

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12369

Thomas White

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The Insurmountable Darkness of Love 爱的不可逾越的黑暗

Cross Currents Pub Date : 2019-09-09 DOI: 10.1111/cros.12364

Douglas E. Christie

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