The spirituality of Jesus, embedded within the literary contours of the Johannine narrative, is primarily grounded in a relationship of affiliation and friendship. It is a spirituality of abiding ...whose origins and goal lie in the unity of heart and mind that the Johannine Jesus as Son shares with the Father. This core relationship connotes not only the love that binds Jesus to God but is also the basis of the motif of sending and the divine authority over life and death which Jesus possesses in this Gospel. Jesus’ spirituality is grounded in the abiding presence of the Spirit-Paraclete whom he bequeaths to the disciples. In handing over the Spirit to the gathered community through his death and resurrection, Jesus donates his own spirituality, ultimately drawing all creation into the divine circle of love. This spirituality is the result of the Spirit’s presence, restoring human beings to their original, created identity as children and friends of God and empowering them for mission. While the dominant imagery is masculine there are also feminine images, particularly that of divine Wisdom, which provide a counterbalance and create an inclusive sense of appropriation and welcome.
Contemporary analysis of the world that produced the Book of Revelation suggests that Patmos was not a penal settlement, and there is little evidence that Domitian systematically persecuted ...Christians. The Emperor Cult was widely practiced, but Christians were not being persecuted for lack of participation. The document makes much of God’s victory in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the slain and standing Lamb (Rev 5:6). The “saints” were not persecuted Asian Christians but, under the influence of the Book of Daniel, John’s presentation of those from Israel’s sacred history who lived by the Word of God and accepted the messianic witness of the prophets (8:3–4; 11:18; 13:7, 10; 14:12; 16:6; 17:6; 18:20, 24; 19:8; 20:6, 9). They already have life, the application of the saving effects of the slain and risen lamb “from the foundation of the world” (13:8). John addresses late first-century Asian Christians, presenting the model of these “saints,” offering them hope as they are tempted by the allure of the Greco-Roman world and its mores. He invites them into the life and light of the New Jerusalem, the Christian church (22:1–5).
The article analyses the words ‘we … died to sin’ in Rom. 6.2, with special reference to the question whether the words are to be taken in a ‘forensic’ or a ‘moral’ sense, and argues that a stronger ...case can be made for the latter. It is also argued that the words are written with reference to baptised believers with a view to reminding them of the radical change they experienced at the time of their initiation into the Christian faith, and exhorting them to continue living as those who have renounced their former life styles and are now alive in Christ.
Human IRGM gene “to be or not to be” Bekpen, Cemaletin; Xavier, Ramnik J.; Eichler, Evan E.
Seminars in immunopathology,
12/2010, Letnik:
32, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The immunity-related GTPases (IRG proteins) are one of the strongest early resistance systems against intracellular pathogens. The
IRG
gene family contains 21 copies arranged as tandem gene clusters ...on two chromosomes in the C57BL/6 mouse genome but has been reduced to only two copies in humans:
IRGC
and
IRGM
.
IRGC
is not involved in immunity, but the human
IRGM
gene plays a role in autophagy-targeted destruction of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(BCG) and
Salmonella typhimurium.
Variant
IRGM
haplotypes have been associated with increased risk for Crohn’s disease and correlated with differential expression of
IRGM
transcripts. This article reviews in detail the studies performed on human samples, in vitro, and in sequence analyses that provide evidence for the unusual evolutionary history of the
IRGM
locus and the important role of the
IRGM
gene in autophagy and Crohn’s disease in response to pathogenesis.
Holmen's focus in this monograph on the death of Jesus as a source of New Testament theodicy reveals a two-fold reasoning: the continued relevance of the theme, and the lack of thorough and sustained ...investigations into it. With its special role within the New Testament canon and within the New Testament perspectives to suffering in particular, and its significance in the modern discussion of theodicy, the crucifixion forms a fascinating starting point for understanding New Testament approaches to suffering.
Despite its description by FrankMcGuinness as one of the hardest and most uncompromising statements on heterosexuality in the Irish theatre, Thomas Kilroy's debut play, The Death and Resurrection of ...Mr. Roche, is remarkable principally for the challenge it poses rather than for any determination it may contain to inveigh against certain odious attitudes extant in modern Ireland. As readers, they are all called upon by this complex text to consider whether the intolerant man is nevertheless a redeemable man; the regenerative potentiality of the play therefore finds its fulfillment not only in the restoration of the eponymous Mr. Roche but, more important, in their discovery of their own capacity to forgive the intolerant man at whose hands Mr. Roche has suffered.
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