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"A man of extremes - w.g. ward as a member of the church of England"
Get PDFThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of W.G. Ward in the Oxford Movement, with specific reference to his series of Articles in the British Critic and his book 'The Ideal, of a Christian Church.' In the Introduction we examine Ward's family background, and his early education. We also consider the influence of Thomas Arnold, and Ward's 'conversion' to the new Movement through the influence of J.H. Newman. Chapter One deals with Tract Ninety and Ward's defence of it. Chapter Two contains Ward's explanation of his ideas to Pusey, and extracts from the correspondence of Newman and Pusey. In Chapter Three we examine in detail each of Ward's eight Articles in the British Critic. Chapter Four describes the embarrassment that Ward and his group had caused to other members of the Movement, and outlines specifically William Palmer's criticism. In Chapter Five we see Ward's reply in the form of his book 'The Ideal of a Christian Church,' which was largely a development of the ideas expressed in the British Critic Articles. In the final Chapter, we see reactions to Ward's book from different quarters, the disciplinary measures taken against him and his departure from the Church of England to the Church of Rome in 1845
[A collection of tracts regarding Tract no. 90 of Newman's Tracts for the times : including the text of Tract 90.
No full textTracts for the times, no. 90 : remarks on certain passages in the Thirty-nine articles / by J.H. Newman -- A letter addressed to R.W. Jelf in explanation of Tract no. 90 / by the author -- A letter to Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford, on occasion of no. 90 / by J.H. Newman -- A few words in support of no. 90 / by W.G. Ward -- A few more words in support of no. 90 / by W.G. Ward -- Appendix to a few more words in support of no. 90 / by W.G. Ward -- The subject of tract XC examined / by F. Oakeley -- The doctrine of the Catholic Church in England on the Holy Eucharist.Mode of access: Internet
Hurrell Froude and the development of his ideal of the church
Get PDFFroude was bom in 1803 into a Devon clerical family of social standing and High Church tradition. The godly Keble, his tutor at Oriel, affected him profoundly. In 1826 he became a Fellow of Oriel and there met Newman. Fronde's ideas soon began to show a clear Catholic tendency which he expressed in his writing with outspoken vigour. New Government Acts, which allowed non-Anglicans to sit in Parliament and so influence the Church's life, were strongly opposed by Froude and his friends. Poor health led Froude to spend six months in the Mediterranean with his father and Newman. There, the Church of Rome both attracted and repelled them. Froude increasingly felt the necessity for the Church to be free from State interference. After Keble’s Assize sermon, the incipient Oxford Movement came to life with the publication of the Tracts for the Times by Newman who emphasised the apostolic succession and the Church as the creation of God. Fronde's ideas, meanwhile, continued in an ever more Catholic direction and with increasing rejection of the Reformers. His influence on Newman was substantial. At the end of 1833, he went to Barbados for 18 months for his health. He increasingly felt the necessity for holiness within the Church and the dangers of rationalism and liberalism. He believed that the Church possessed authority in the world. He frequently looked to the Nonjurors and increasingly towards Rome. While accepting the infallibility of the Apostolic Church, he rejected that of the Papacy and also transubstantiation which he understood as rationalistic. He believed deeply in the Real Presence and the centrality of the Eucharist in worship. After his death in 1836, Keble and Newman collected and published his Remains, which aroused anger and scorn, with some joyous agreement
Future Advances in Cancer Pharmacogenomics
No full textThis chapter will summarise some of the recent advances in cancer pharmacogenomics and how new technologies and study designs may provide important insights to provide safer and more effective treatments for cancer patients
Principles of Genetics and Pharmacogenetics
No full textThis chapter will explain in brief the principles of genetics and genetic variation and how these apply to prediction of adverse drug reactions and treatment efficacy in cancer. The difference between germline (inherited) and somatic (acquired) genetic variation will be explained and its particular importance in cancer. Some of the different technologies that can now be used to detect genetic variation will be explained. This chapter will also examine how pharmacogenetic studies have been conducted and issues relating to study design comparing different approaches
A study of the issues surrounding the understanding of historic military artefacts as primary source documents with particular emphasis on the sword
No full textLire désespérément… W.G. Sebald
Get PDFDans la foulée d’Évelyne Grossman et de sa réflexion sur « la paradoxale vitalité de la négativité dépressive » (L’angoisse de penser, 2008), cet article envisage l’exploration littéraire de la négativité et de la dépossession de soi, caractéristique d’une certaine modernité que l’on peut faire remonter à Mallarmé, en tant qu’elle peut fonctionner, pour le lecteur, à la manière d’un antidépresseur paradoxal. Questionnant d’abord de façon générale certaines conceptions « sublimantes », réparatrices ou rédemptrices de la littérature (Leo Bersani) et la prégnance des modèles platoniciens et aristotéliciens de la création comme pharmakon, l’auteure tente ensuite de cerner plus spécifiquement, à partir de l’oeuvre de l’écrivain allemand W.G. Sebald, le caractère tout à la fois anxiogène et libérateur de la symbolisation de la perte en littérature.Following Évelyne Grossman and her developments about the “paradoxical vitality of depressive negativity” (L’angoisse de penser, 2008), this article addresses the literary exploration of negativity and self-deprivation, characteristic of a certain modernity one can retrace up to Mallarmé, and proposes that it can function, for the reader, as a paradoxical antidepressant. Questioning at first more generally the current sublimating conceptions of literature and the impregnation of the platonician and aristotelian models of creation as pharmakon, the author seeks then to embrace more precisely, on the basis of the works by German writer W.G. Sebald, the all-together anguishing and liberating effect of the symbolization of loss in literature
Principles of Cancer Treatment
No full textThe primary treatment options for patients with cancer mainly revolve around three major modalities: surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The choice between these different options is dependent upon the type of tumour, the extent (stage) of disease, the available evidence regarding effectiveness, clinician and patient preference. This chapter will explain in brief the principles of cancer treatment and how the type and stage of disease influences the goal of treatment and treatment selection. An important consideration for physicians and their patients is balancing the risk of toxicity versus benefit. It is in part the difficulty in predicting treatment toxicity and efficacy that have driven the search for pharmacogenetic tests to improve the likelihood of benefit and minimise the risk of toxicity. In addition, cancer treatment has evolved over recent years to include mechanism based or so-called targeted therapies for which chance of response can be predicted by the presence of specific, activating mutations encoding the target or key components of the pathway
Traces of trauma in W.G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr
No full textBoth W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work. In a series of close readings of key prose texts, Dora Osborne examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives. By focusing on the authors' use of visual and topographical tropes, she shows how blind spots and inhospitable places configure signs of past violence, but, ultimately, resist our understanding. Whilst links between the two authors are well-documented, this book offers the first full-length study of Sebald and Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. - from book cover
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