Painting as Portal: “Birth” and “Death” of the Sacred Image

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Judovitz
Keyword(s):  
Subsequent Response ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
Sacred Image ◽  
Birth Death

Images of birth, death, and mourning are considered in terms of their theological and pictorial implications. Naturalistic depictions of birth and infancy lend themselves to a theological meditation on the Incarnation, as well as reflections on painting as a medium of incarnation. Taking into account the destruction of sacred images in the wake of Post-Reformation iconoclasm, the second part focuses on paintings of St. Sebastian depicting his supposed “death,” mourning, and miraculous recovery. It shows how the martyrdom of painting, figured through the lens of St. Sebastian’s “death,” and the Catholic Reform’s subsequent response in attempting to redefine the sacred image, lead to a new understanding of painting. La Tour’s works address this seminal problem, by showing how painting may redeem its spiritual authority by sacrificing its visual manifestations as an image when redefined as a portal to the sacred.

Normal approximations to discrete unimodal distributions

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1013-1018
Author(s):  
B. G. Quinn ◽  
H. L. MacGillivray
Keyword(s):  
Stationary Distribution ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Hypergeometric Distribution ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Normal Approximations ◽  
Discrete Random Variables ◽  
Birth Death

Sufficient conditions are presented for the limiting normality of sequences of discrete random variables possessing unimodal distributions. The conditions are applied to obtain normal approximations directly for the hypergeometric distribution and the stationary distribution of a special birth-death process.

IMPAIRMENT OF THE PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS FOLLOWING PROLONGED THERAPY WITH CORTICOTROPHIN

1970 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Levell ◽  
S. R. Stitch ◽  
M. J. Noronha
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Adrenal Function ◽  
Withdrawal Symptoms ◽  
Prolonged Therapy ◽  
Adrenal Axis ◽  
Lysine Vasopressin ◽  
Subsequent Response ◽  
Pituitary Adrenal Axis

ABSTRACT Pituitary-adrenal function was tested in a group of 33 patients with multiple sclerosis who had been treated with corticotrophin for at least 1 year. Assessment was made by measuring the change in the plasma 11-hydroxycorticosteroid concentration following lysine vasopressin (LVP) administration. Ten patients showed abnormally small increases after LVP. Two of the 5 patients with the smallest increases still showed impairment 8 months later. The patients with no withdrawal symptoms had normal or nearly normal increases following LVP. There was an association between the concentration of 11-hydroxycorticosteroids immediately after withdrawal of ACTH and the subsequent response to LVP.

Bahá’u’lláh as “World Reformer”

1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-70
Author(s):  
Christopher Buck
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
Western Influence ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
Three Stages

Vindicating the mission of the Persian reformer known as the Báb (d. 1850) Bahá’u’lláh’s Book of Certitude (1862) focused on spiritual authority from an Islamic perspective. In this work, a subtext may be discerned, in which Bahá’u’lláh intimates his own mission in the same terms of reference. Later, in his epistles to the monarchs of Europe and West Asia (1866–1869), Bahá’u’lláh exercised that authority and spoke of world reform. This article places Bahá’u’lláh in the context of Islamic reform, with particular reference to the advocacy of constitutional democracy by prominent Iranian secularists. In an ideological ether pervaded by “Westoxication,” Bahá’u’lláh sought to reverse the direction of Western influence. Bahá’u’lláh prosecuted his own reforms in three stages: Bábí reform; Persian reform; and world reform. In the centrifugal sequence, Bahá’u’lláh is shown to have bypassed Islamic reform altogether in his professed role as “World Reformer.”

A Comparative Exploration of the Spiritual Authority of the Awliyā’ in the Shi‘i and Sufi Traditions

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-74
Author(s):  
Rebecca Masterton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Comparison ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
Central Tenet ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Islamic Belief

This paper aims to engage in a critical comparison of the spiritual authority of the awliyā’ in the Shi‘i and Sufi traditions in order to examine an area of Islamic belief that remains unclearly defined. Similarities between Shi‘i and Sufi doctrine have long been noted, but little research has been conducted on how and why they developed. Taking a central tenet of both, walāyah, the paper discusses several of its key aspects as they appear recorded in Shi‘i ḥadīth collections and as they appear later in one of the earliest Sunni Sufi treatises. By extention, it seeks to explore the identity of the awliyā’ and their role in relation to the Twelve Imams. It also traces the reabsorption into Shi‘i culture of the Sufi definition of walāyah via two examples: the works of one branch of the Dhahabi order and those of Allamah Tabataba’i, a popular twentieth-century Iranian mystic and scholar.

SHORT OR LONG FUSE: TIMING THE ORDOVICIAN RADIATION USING THE FOSSILIZED BIRTH DEATH MODEL

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis R. Congreve ◽  
◽  
Peter J. Wagner ◽  
Mark E. Patzkowsky
Keyword(s):  
Birth Death

Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Questier
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Dynastic Politics ◽  
Public Politics

This volume deals with royal dynastic politics during the post-Reformation period. The royal succession and the business of marriage into other royal and princely families were central to public politics. But the Reformation raised questions in some parts of Europe about how far hereditary right was necessarily the key to deciding the path of the succession, and whether other issues might not be taken into account in identifying where and with whom royal power should be located and whether the sovereign should, under certain circumstances, have to make concessions to particular readings of spiritual authority. In that context, the claim here is not only that the conventional historiography on the Reformation in the British Isles fits, as it obviously does, into that account of dynastic politics but also that the substantial archival and printed records relating to post-Reformation Catholicism of various kinds can be reintegrated into mainstream versions of English and British history during the period.

scholarly journals Biomarkers predictive of treatment response in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: a systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1759720X2110140
Author(s):  
Conor Magee ◽  
Hannah Jethwa ◽  
Oliver M. FitzGerald ◽  
Deepak R. Jadon
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Psoriatic Arthritis ◽  
Treatment Response ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Psoriatic Disease ◽  
Subsequent Response

Aims: The ability to predict response to treatment remains a key unmet need in psoriatic disease. We conducted a systematic review of studies relating to biomarkers associated with response to treatment in either psoriasis vulgaris (PsV) or psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods: A search was conducted in PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane library from their inception to 2 September 2020, and conference proceedings from four major rheumatology conferences. Original research articles studying pre-treatment biomarker levels associated with subsequent response to pharmacologic treatment in either PsV or PsA were included. Results: A total of 765 articles were retrieved and after review, 44 articles (22 relating to PsV and 22 to PsA) met the systematic review’s eligibility criteria. One study examined the response to methotrexate, one the response to tofacitinib and all the other studies to biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Whilst several studies examined the HLA-C*06 allele in PsV, the results were conflicting. Interleukin (IL)-12 serum levels and polymorphisms in the IL-12B gene show promise as biomarkers of treatment response in PsV. Most, but not all, studies found that higher baseline levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) were associated with a better clinical response to treatment in patients with PsA. Conclusion: Several studies have identified biomarkers associated with subsequent response to treatment in psoriatic disease. However, due to the different types of biomarkers, treatments and outcome measures used, firm conclusions cannot be drawn. Further validation is needed before any of these biomarkers translate to clinical practice.

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