This article reassesses the seminal ideas of Rodney Clapp’s 1996 A Peculiar People on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. Clapp observes that Christianity has lost, or seems to have lost, its ...cultural prestige and prominence and that Christians have responded to the emergence of a post-Christian society in two unhelpful ways: relinquishment and retrenchment. Some believers try to make the Gospel relevant to society by imitating social trends and commercializing the faith. This Clapp calls relinquishment. Retrenchment refers to the tempting impulse to “reclaim America,” its politics and culture, for the Christian cause. Clapp offers a third way, envisioning the church as a peculiar people formed by forgiveness and Eucharist—a church not imprisoned and without prisoners. The article reflects on the nature of Christian community in terms of the ancient problem of “the one and the many” and the dictum, “no salvation outside the church.” In opposition to atomistic individualism, a robust biblical notion of church starts and ends as one body with many members. In contrast to modern notions of autonomy, salvation is found in the community of faith as personal identity is found in family. In the final analysis, Clapp appeals to friendship as a key Christian practice that holds the community of faith together but also subverts the powers of a post-Christian society.
Cyril of Jerusalem's proposed theology of the Trinity has been labeled generic. That is, the term "God" identifies not so much a species of being or an individual being, but a unique, sui generis ...genus. Within the genus of God there are three species or ways of being God, though not three discrete individual beings. The article will attempt to defend and renew Cyril's theology by an appeal to the contemporary philosopher, Saul Kripke, and his notion of rigid designators. One way to contemporize and perhaps better understand Cyril's position is to interpret the term "God" as a Kripkean natural kind rigid designator with the properties of Fatherhood, Sonship, and Spiration.
Yeast is an experimental system that has led to critical discoveries in cell and molecular biology. The wide range of tools available in yeast has also made it an important system in many areas ...relevant to cancer including anti-cancer drug discovery, mechanisms of cell cycle control, and biological responses to stress. The present volume represents a state-of-the-art description of many areas of cancer research where yeast based systems are proving particularly valuable. This volume is of particular value to cancer researchers who lack extensive experience with yeast, but are interested in current results with this highly relevant experimental system.
Assertion-Based Design Foster, Harry D; Krolnik, Adam C; Lacey, David J
2005, 2004, 2004-06-01
eBook
The focus of Assertion-Based Design, Second Editionis three-fold: - How to specify assertions, - How to create and adopt a methodology that supports assertion-based design (predominately for RTL ...design), - What to do with the assertions and methodology once you have them. To support these three over-arching goals, we showcase multiple forms of assertion specifications: Accellera Open Verification Library (OVL), Accellera Property Specification Language (PSL), and Accellera System Verilog.The recommendations and claims we make in this book are based on our combined actual experiences in applying an assertion-based methodology to real design and verification as well as our work in developing industry assertion standards. Differences between the first edition and the second edition include: - Updates to the manuscript based on newer versions of standards, - Corrections to errata identified during reviewer feedback, - New material that presents techniques on how to avoid common ambiguity errors, - New material that discusses high-level requirements modeling for specification. Written for:Researchers, scientists
The Saint Who Would Be Santa English, Adam C
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
12/2012, Letnik:
59, Številka:
16
Journal Article, Trade Publication Article
St Nicholas, the saint who would be Santa, was, in real life, no magical gift-giver or maker of toys. He was a compassionate Christian pastor, a sharp politician, and a patron of the people.
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