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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Ecologia e história natural das serpentes de uma área de Caatinga no nordeste brasileiro
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2013 A fauna de serpentes do bioma Caatinga é uma das menos estudadas do Brasil. Estudamos a assembleia de serpentes de uma área de Caatinga arbustivo-arbórea a fim de descrever a história natural das espécies ocorrentes na região.
Paulo C.M.D. Mesquita +3 more
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Ancient ideas about human transformation and divinization have resurfaced in our cultural moment. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are raising afresh questions about what it means to be human and divine. The Oxford Handbook of Deification has arrived on the scene as its subject matter has splashed out of theological discourse into the
Andrew J. Byers
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Consent and the Formation of Preferences
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under ideal conditions, explicit consent and related actions usually change the moral facts in a distinctive way: they make something permissible that was previously impermissible. But they don't do this if the consent is coerced. And it seems they also don't do it if the preferences on which the consent is based were formed in particular ways:
Richard Pettigrew
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1989 Durante um período de 19 meses (março 1986 a setembro 1987) foram estudados 22 casos de acidentes ofídicos causados por Bothrops moojeni na região de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, nos quais o tamanho da serpente foi sistematicamente medido.
João Aris Kouyoumdjian +1 more
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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How Host Phylogeny, Diet, and Habitat Affect Gut Microbial Diversity in Wild Snakes
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.Gut microbiota plays critical roles in host digestion, immune regulation, neurochemical signaling, and metabolic homeostasis. Based on wild snakes (73 individuals from 23 species) from China, we explored the composition, characteristics, and functions of gut microbes across different groups using fecal metagenomic samples; further we explored the ...
Jiaqi Zhang +7 more
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O uso de Dioniso como item de propaganda na revolta de Espártaco: um estudo de caso
Topoi, 2020 RESUMO Neste artigo1 procura-se estabelecer a relação entre o quadro mais geral das Guerras Servis na Itália (notadamente a Terceira, ou Revolta de Espártaco, ocorrida entre 73-71 AEC) e os episódios de êxtase dionisíaco em diferentes momentos e locais ...
Vicente Dobroruka
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Friendship in the New Political Theologies
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 686-707, July 2026.Abstract As a distinct academic discipline, political theology rose and fell with Carl Schmitt. If there was any hope of redeeming it, the discipline would have to be entirely renewed. A deep‐seated and understudied feature of that renewal lies in the reconceptualisation of the political relation.
Andreas E. Masvie
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