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The authors propose a novel use for the conventional hypoglycemic drug, dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP4+) inhibitor sitagliptin. Sitagliptin prevents scar formation during wound healing through fibroblast‐to‐adipocyte conversion at least by preventing DPP4‐mediated truncation of IGF‐1.
Ju‐Lei Zhang +14 more
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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The Theology of Rudolf Bultmann and Second-Century Gnosis [PDF]
In the second chapter of the Prolegomena to his recent study ‘Salvation as History' (Heil als Geschichte) Oscar Cullmann argues for the similarity of Rudolf Bultmann's theology and the gnosis of the second century.
Rordorf, W.
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A review of Harton, P. A. (Ed.). (2015). Orthodoxy and heresy in early Christian contexts: Reconsidering the Bauer thesis. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications. 288 pp. $32.00.
Hanson, Mark
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Muslim Diasporas and the Politics of Belonging: Ibadi and Ismaili Pasts and Presents in East Africa
ABSTRACT This article examines the Ibadi and Ismaili Muslim communities in East Africa—particularly in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (including Zanzibar)—and their distinct religious, social, and economic roles. Even as minorities within predominantly Sunni contexts, both groups have shaped the region through migration, commerce, and international ...
Kimberly T. Wortmann
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The Problem of the Inefficacy of Knowledge in Early Buddhist Soteriology [PDF]
Early Buddhism has been described as a “gnostic soteriology” in that itsees the chief cause of life’s unsatisfactoriness to be ignorance of certain metaphysical truths, and that once this ignorance is eliminated through awareness of the true nature of ...
Ryan Showler
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Foreword to The Testament of Jesus, A Study of the Gospel of John in the Light of Chapter 17
AMONG THE MOST PROVOCATIVE New Testament scholars of the twentieth century, Ernst Kasemann tops the list, and his most striking work is The Testament of fesus.
Anderson, Paul N.
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My paper refers to Leszek Kołakowski’s Main Currents of Marxism: Its Origin, Growth, and Dissolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1987). Kołakowski’s intention was to write a textbook on the history of Marxism based on his ...
Panasiuk, Ryszard
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Sergei Bulgakov's Sophiology Historical Parallels and Ecumenical Dialogues
Sergei Bulgakov's sophiology offers a distinctive contribution to Russian religious philosophy by incorporating Divine Wisdom (Sophia) into Trinitarian theology, thereby bridging materialism and idealism while addressing the existential and theological ...
Michael Yurievich Kuznetsov
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The truth of faith and the truth of doubt in the story 'Simon Miracle Worker' of Danilo Kiš [PDF]
The story 'Simon Miracle Worker', which opens the last Kiš's Collection of Stories, the Encyclopaedia of the Dead, contains 'the poetics of condensation', and together with it, a documentary procedure.
Bečejski Mirjana
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