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Four letters from missionaries in China, 1931: Grace M. Breck, Christina Outerbridge, and Dean R. Wickes
No full textFour complete letters: 1. Letter (3 p.) dated 17 February 1931, from Grace M. Breck at Lintsing to friends; 2. Letter (1 p.) dated 23 February 1931, from Christina and Leonard Outerbridge of Tehchow, China, to friends; 3. Letter (3 p.) dated 23 May 1931 from Grace M. Breck at Lintsing, China, to home friends; 4. Letter (2 p.) dated 3 June 1931 from Dean R. Wickes at Lintsing, China, to friend
Law and grace in St John Chrysostom's commentary on St Paul's epistle to the Galatians
No full textIn this dissertation an attempt is made to analyse John Chrysostom's interpretation of the crucial theme of Pauline theology: Law and Grace. Following a general introduction on Chrysostom's exegetical work, which also provides a comperehensive list of all the references to Galatians in Chrysostom's works, the theme is treated under six chapters corresponding exactly to those of the Epistle and of Chrysostom's Commentary, The particular topics emerging from this analysis include, the divine origin of both Law and Grace, the preparatory character of Law and the superiority of Grace, the explanation of the early attitude of the Jerusalem Apostles and of Paul himself to the relation of Law and Grace in contast to that of the false-brethren of Galatia, the examination of the limits and carnal character of the Law in contrast to the potency and spiritual character of Grace, the precise meaning of the superiority of Grace over the Law and, finally the connections between freedom and love with Grace. Chrysostom's doctrine is marked by richness of doctrinal nuances and on several points, as for example on "oeconomy" as a key to understanding the Apostolic approach to the theme of Law and Grace, by original insight. The overall interpretation of Chrysostom, though not radically different from the common interpretation of this Pauline theme in modern scholarship, presents certain features which are typical of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and which could be taken up with profit, not least in the contemporary ecumenical dialogue
Grace Aguilar’s historical romances
No full textPhDMy dissertation looks critically at Grace Aguilar’s historical romance novels and short
stories, and investigates English writers’ uses of history in early- to mid-nineteenth century
fiction. Shifting the current critical emphasis on Aguilar’s Jewish texts, I
have analyzed the ways in which Aguilar revises the genres of the national tale, the
gothic romance, and the medieval romance in order to demonstrate her participation
in the construction of nineteenth-century domestic values.
In Chapter One, I introduce to critical debate Aguilar’s juvenilia, relying on
unpublished manuscripts and novels published only in the twentieth century to
establish the origins of Aguilar’s interest in history and historical writing. Locating
Aguilar’s narrative style in the early nineteenth-century national tale, I show that as a
child Aguilar envisioned the English and Scottish nations as a family, making
domesticity both a private and a public—a female and a male—value.
Chapter Two focuses on Aguilar’s use of history to express nineteenth-century
domestic ideals in her version of the gothic romance. Deploying the setting of the
Catholic Inquisition in Spain and Portugal, Aguilar writes gothic tales that unite
Jewish and Protestant gender values. She makes heroic the Jewish female martyr to
suggest not only that nineteenth-century Protestants and Jews share similar domestic
principles, but also that Jewish women could be seen as ideal models for Protestant
women.
Finally, in Chapter Three I explore Aguilar’s participation in the nineteenth-century
medievalist tradition by reflecting on her revision of nineteenth-century literary
idealizations of the Middle Ages. In these short stories, Aguilar fictionalizes the
sixteenth-century European chivalric ethos, looking critically at the role of women in
court society at the end of the Middle Ages. Deploying the tropes prevalent in
popular nineteenth-century anti-medievalist fiction, Aguilar debunks celebrations of
the Middle Ages by showing how chivalry is antagonistic to nineteenth-century
domesticity
Global modelling of continental water storage changes : sensitivity to different climate data sets
No full textSince 2002, the GRACE satellite mission provides estimates of the Earth's dynamic gravity field with unprecedented accuracy. Differences between monthly gravity fields contain a clear hydrological signal due to continental water storage changes. In order to evaluate GRACE results, the state-of-the-art WaterGAP Global Hydrological Model (WGHM) is applied to calculate terrestrial water storage changes on a global scale. WGHM is driven by different climate data sets to analyse especially the influence of different precipitation data on calculated water storage. The data sets used are the CRU TS 2.1 climate data set, the GPCC Full Data Product for precipitation and data from the ECMWF integrated forecast system. A simple approach for precipitation correction is introduced. WGHM results are then compared with GRACE data. The use of different precipitation data sets leads to considerable differences in computed water storage change for a large number of river basins. Comparing model results with GRACE observations shows a good spatial correlation and also a good agreement in phase. However, seasonal variations of water storage as derived from GRACE tend to be significantly larger than those computed by WGHM, regardless of which climate data set is used
“Un’unione matematica: William Henry e Grace Chisholm Young”
No full textVita e opere dei matematici inglesi William Henry e Grace Chisholm Young
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Truce grace is divine : special grace as participation in divine fullness in the thought of Jonathan Edwards
No full textThis project is an exploration of Jonathan Edwards’s doctrine of grace as divine participation, with the aim of providing resources for Reformed engagement with soteriological participation thought. Soteriological participation, often termed theosis or divinisation or deification, is favoured in a range of theological traditions. Edwards scholars increasingly characterise Edwards’s thought with the term theosis. This study modifies this characterisation by arguing that Edwards’s soteriological participation thought is best captured in his category of divine or true grace. This divine grace is a communication and participation in divine fullness, where the divine fullness is both infinitely above created nature and yet not the divine essence. This concept allows Edwards to navigate the creator-creature distinction in ways that support key Reformed interests. Edwards’s soteriological participation (grace) is not a departure from his tradition, but rather a sympathetic development of it for the purposes of its support and defence. I demonstrate this by showing Edwards’s distinction between created nature and divine fullness, which allows him to promote Reformed understandings of gratuity. At the same time divine fullness is carefully distinguished from the divine essence, preserving divine transcendence while at the same time allowing intimacy between creator and creature. Edwards navigates this creatorcreature distinction and relation, in part, by employing two complementary approaches to participation thought: one is ontological participation that undergirds created nature, and the other is a relational participation that explains divine grace. Created nature finds its teleological fulfilment in this relational, soteriological participation in the divine Trinity. Thus, nature is fulfilled in grace. This work helps clarify how true grace differs from both created nature and the divine essence, and yet relates them relationally and teleologically. In so doing it provides Reformed theology with new resources for engaging soteriological participation thought from the vantage point of its own tradition
Graphical R-matrix atomic collision environment (GRACE):the problem specification stage
No full textIn this paper we introduce the concept of a graphical R-matrix atomic collision environment (GRACE). GRACE couples the graphical capability of powerful workstations with the processing power of supercomputers to provide an environment for the study of atomic collision properties and processes. At the core of GRACE is a new generation R-matrix program package, which is used to compute properties characterising electron atom and electron ion collisions. One of the motivations behind the project is to render this package simple to use by novice and experienced users alike, thereby significantly improving its usefulness to the physics community. GRACE is composed of a problem specification stage, a computation stage, and an interpretation stage. The focus of this paper is a description of the X Window graphical user interface which constitutes the problem specification stage of GRACE.</p
Evaluating interferometric baseline performances in a close formation flight by using relative GRACE GPS navigation solutions
No full textIn this paper the impact of relative position errors on
the interferometric baseline performance of multistatic
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites flying in a
close formation is analyzed and assessed. Based on accuracy
results obtained from differential GPS (DGPS) observations
between the twin Gravity Recovery and Climate
Experiment (GRACE) satellites, baseline uncertainties
are derived for three interferometric scenarios of a
dedicated SAR mission. To assess the accuracy with respect
to quality requirements of high-resolution DEMs,
topographic height errors are derived from the estimated
baseline uncertainties. The analysis reveals that the induced
low-frequencymodulation (height bias) fulfills the
relative vertical accuracy requirement (std. dev. less than 1 m linear
point-to-point error) of a Digital Terrain Elevation
Data model of level 3 (DTED-3) for most of the baseline constellations. DGPS can be used as an operational navigation tool for high-precise baseline estimation if a geodetic-grade dual-frequency spaceborne GPS receiver is assumed to be the primary instrument onboard the SAR satellites. To exemplarily demonstrate the error propagation into the inteferogram Orbital Phase Screens (OPS) are generated by differencing simulated interferograms. These are calculated from baselines of distinct GRACE error signatures and magnitudes
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