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The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark
No full textIn spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period. Not only is the text of Mark the least well represented of the canonical Gospels in terms of the number of patristic citations, commentaries and manuscripts, the explicit comments about the evangelist Mark reveal some ambivalence about its literary or theological value. In my survey of the reception of Mark from Papias of Hierapolis until Clement of Alexandria, I will argue that the reason why the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace the Gospel of Mark was that they perceived the text to be amenable to the Christological beliefs and social praxis of rival Christian factions. The patristic tradition about Mark may have little historical basis, but it had an important ideological function in appropriating the text in the name of an apostolic authority from the margins or periphery
Pier Groups - A Conversation with Jonathan Weinberg
No full textTo mark the publication of Jonathan Weinberg’s provocative new book Pier Groups, the author speaks with artists Andreas Sterzing and Sasha Wortzel about art, sexuality, and the New York waterfront from the 1970s to the present. In light of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, the conversation explores how the area has changed since the 1970s and highlights the artists’ personal recollections of the piers and New York City over the past fifty years.
Following Stonewall, the Hudson River piers and surrounding Meatpacking District became a site of exploration and experimentation for queer artists. Pier Groups (Penn State Press) weaves together interviews, documentary photographs, literary texts, artworks, and film stills to show how avant-garde practices competed and mingled with queer identities along the Manhattan waterfront. Part memoir, part art history, the book is a document of the artistic and sexual expression that characterized—and ultimately transformed—the neighborhood where the Whitney now stands.
In Chapter 6: "Something Possible Everywhere" Jonathan Weinberg talks about Andreas Sterzing's work at Pier 34, and illustrates this chapter with numerous of his photographs and portraits of the artists working at the Pier in 1983-84
Incomprehension or resistance? : the Markan disciples and the narrative logic of Mark 4:1—8:30
No full textThe characterization of the Markan disciples has been and continues to be the object of much scholarly reflection and speculation. For many, the Markan author’s presentation of Jesus’ disciples holds a key, if not the key, to unlocking the purpose and function of the gospel as a whole. Commentators differ as to whether the Markan disciples ultimately serve a pedagogical or polemical function, yet they are generally agreed that the disciples in Mark come off rather badly, especially when compared to their literary counterparts in Matthew, Luke, and John.
This narrative-critical study considers the characterization of the Markan disciples within the Sea Crossing movement (Mark 4:1–8:30). While commentators have, on the whole, interpreted the disciples’ negative characterization in this movement in terms of lack of faith and/or incomprehension, neither of these, nor a combination of the two, fully accounts for the severity of language leveled against the disciples by the narrator (6:52) and Jesus (8:17–18). Taking as its starting point an argument by Jeffrey B. Gibson (1986) that the harshness of Jesus’ rebuke in Mark 8:14–21 is occasioned not by the disciples’ lack of faith or incomprehension but by their active resistance to his Gentile mission, this investigation uncovers additional examples of the disciples’ resistance to Gentile mission, offering a better account of their negative portrayal within the Sea Crossing movement and helping explain many of their other failures.
In short, this study argues that in Mark 4:1–8:26, the disciples are characterized as resistant to Jesus’ Gentile mission and to their participation in that mission, the chief consequence being that they are rendered incapable of recognizing Jesus’ vocational identity as Israel’s Messiah (Thesis A). This leads to a secondary thesis, namely, that in Mark 8:27–30, Peter’s recognition of Jesus’ messianic identity indicates that the disciples have finally come to accept Jesus’ Gentile mission and their participation in it (Thesis B).
“Chapter One: Introduction” offers a selective review of scholarly treatments of the Markan disciples, which shows that few scholars attribute resistance, let alone purposeful resistance, to the disciples.
“Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Repetition” introduces the methodological tools, concepts, and perspectives employed in the study. It includes a section on narrative criticism, which focuses upon the story-as-discoursed and the implied author and reader, and a section on Construction Grammar, a branch of cognitive linguistics founded by Charles Fillmore and further developed by Paul Danove, which focuses upon semantic and narrative frames and case frame analysis.
“Chapter Three: The Sea Crossing Movement, Mark 4:1–8:30” addresses the question of Markan structure and argues that Mark 4:1–8:30 comprises a single, unified, narrative movement, whose action and plot is oriented to the Sea of Galilee and whose most distinctive feature is the network of sea crossings that transport Jesus and his disciples back and forth between Jewish and Gentile geopolitical spaces.
Following William Freedman, “Chapter Four: The Literary Motif” introduces two criteria (frequency and avoidability) for determining objectively what constitutes a literary motif and provides the methodological basis and starting point for the analyses performed in chapters five and six.
“Chapter Five: The Sea Crossing Motif” establishes and then carries out a lengthy narrative analysis of the Sea Crossing motif, which is oriented around Mark’s use of θάλασσα (thalassa) and πλοῖον (ploion), and “Chapter Six: The Loaves Motif” does the same for The Loaves motif, oriented around Mark’s use of ἄρτος (artos).
Finally, “Chapter Seven: The Narrative Logic of the Disciples (In)comprehension” draws together all narrative, linguistic, and exegetical insights of the previous chapters and offers a single coherent reading of the Sea Crossing movement that establishes Theses A and B.
A conversation with author Jon Waterman
No full textIn 1869, John Wesley Powell led a small party down the Green and Colorado Rivers in a bold attempt to explore the Grand Canyon for the first time. After their monumental expedition, they told of raging rapids, constant danger, and breathtaking natural beauty of the American landscape at its most pristine. Jon Waterman combines sheer adventure and environmental calamity in this trailblazing cautionary account of his 2008 trip down the overtaxed, drying Colorado. Dammed and tunneled, forced into countless canals, trapped in reservoirs and harnessed for electricity, what once was untamed and free is now humbled, parched, and so yoked to human purposes that in most years it trickles away 100 miles from its oceanic destination. Waterman writes with informal immediacy in this eye-witness account of the many demands on the Colorado, from irrigating 3.5 million acres of farmland to watering the lawns of Los Angeles. He shows how our profligacy and inexorable climate change spark political conflict, and how we can avert this onrushing ecological crisis. As he follows Powell afloat and afoot, Waterman reaches out both to adventure travelers and to scientists, conservationists, environmentalists, and anyone interested in the fragile interplay between nature and humans. Jonathan Waterman is the author of nine books, has made four television films, and works as a freelance author and filmmaker. In 2004, his writing about the Arctic won the prestigious National Endowment of the Arts Literary Fellowship.MARK MADISON: Hi, I'm Mark Madison, and today is June 2nd, 2010, and we're doing another in our monthly series of Podcasts with conservationists in action, writers, scientist and others who have gone out and done interesting conservation work, and this morning we're very fortunate to have Jonathan Waterman with us, who has just recently written a new book called "Running Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River."
And, John, thanks for agreeing to do this.
JONATHAN WATERMAN: My pleasure.
MARK MADISON: I guess the first obvious question is: What inspired you to make this journey all the way down the Colorado River?
JONATHAN WATERMAN: Well, I live in the headwaters of the river alongside a major tributary called the Roaring Fork, and my children are going to inherit whatever we make out of the resources in the west, and I felt given the pending crisis that it was appropriate to investigate what might be left for the next generation.
MARK MADISON: How did the river vary over its more than 1400-mile range?
JONATHAN WATERMAN: I was surprised by the differences not only, of course, in the geology and the terrain and the riverscape, but by the number of issues that I would find, you know, around virtually every corner or every hundred miles or so, habitat compromises, but to my great delight, the river in many sections is quite intact, and it's not just the Grand Canyon that's a place of beauty. There are many other sections along the river that were awe-inspiring.
MARK MADISON: So, John, I think the next obvious question is a logistical one... what type of craft did you use to go down the river, and did you travel by yourself or with others?
JONATHAN WATERMAN: I traveled alone for half the length of the river and used several different types of craft, a three-pound pack raft at the beginning and end, and then my kayak for much of the length of the river, and I hitched rides with friends and with researchers through the Grand Canyon on an oar frame raft.
MARK MADISON: One of the other things that comes out in your book that's pretty interesting is you looked at a lot of historical figures who traveled before you down the Colorado River. Which early explorers inspired you on this trip?
JONATHAN WATERMAN: Well, of course, there's John Wesley Powell, who some biographers have accused of being extravagant and full of a little bit of hyperbola, but, of course, I'd read Powell's book and learned a lot from it, but there are others, too, other early explorers, not only innovators with whitewater boats, but a man named Stanton who tried to bill a railroad the length of the river, lost three men in the Grand Canyon in three separate drowning incidents. And early people such as Aldo Leopold, who went to the desert delta and wrote about a river that was still pristine in the 1920s.
MARK MADISON: Another thing that comes up a lot that would have been new to Powell and some of the earlier explorers was the damming of the river. Talk a little about some of the major dams on the Colorado.
JONATHAN WATERMAN: Well, in the course of my journey, I portaged around 13 dams, until the last dam in Mexico, the Morales, but in the basin, in the many major tributaries that comprise the Colorado River basin, there are more than 100 dams, and the river has been, in a biologist's word, fragmented by these dams. It prevents the passage of fish. It changes water temperature. And it traps the life-giving silt or sediment in the river.
These dams are clearly remarkable works of engineering, and if you put aside your misgivings about the damage to the ecosystems below and above the dams, it's amazing what we've done, the civilization that we've built with these dams, and these dams have built-- really have been built to last forever.
But now the question that we're beginning to ask ourselves in times of drought, are these dams sustainable? By playing God with a river, what are the consequences? And we're finally learning the price of altering a very delicate river ecosystem by placing these large wedges of concrete in the river.
MARK MADISON: Well, that segues nicely to my next question, and that is: How does the river end? And I guess it's the same way, how does your book end?
JONATHAN WATERMAN: Well, I spent a lot of time at the river's end. Before I even started my journey, I flew down to the delta and spent several days there with biologists and people, both Mexican and American, who are trying to restore the river and the delta. And it's still-- it's hard to alter a landscape completely. It's a magnificent place with the mountains in the distance and a sense of the Sonoran Desert that stretches onto almost eternity before the river hits the sea, but the river no longer hits the sea. Only the high tides rinse up into the delta.
Now, without giving away the end of my book, of course, it was a great, depressing, exasperating moment to see this force of nature that flows near my home come to a screeching halt in a puddle of phosphates just past the Mexican border, but there is hope, nonetheless, there are conservationists, scientists, engineers, even government agencies who are concerned about the lack of water in the delta. And with a little bit of work, and even a little bit more resources, money, post flows can be returned to the delta, that is, post flows being a permanent or semipermanent pulses of water that would restore many of these wetlands that have been lost. 90% of the wetlands have been lost in the delta. So there is tremendous hope for this to happen, but we have to turn people's attention to that fact, that this iconic river, the American Nile, as many people call it, no longer reaches the sea. So it's a great place to begin, among many other sections of the river that need restoring and many that are still in act and revered, and we just have to treat the river as a whole rather than fragmenting it and stopping it before it reaches the sea.
MARK MADISON: Which is a good reminder to people listening in, the title of John Waterman's book is "Running Dry."
One last thing about the book, a nice surprise at the end of the book is this beautiful map. Why don't you tell us a little about the map that comes with this book.
JONATHAN WATERMAN: Well, there is no single piece of paper that has as much valuable information as this National Geographic wall map. I worked with a team of advisors from throughout the basin, both engineers and conservationists, that had a lot of knowledge about the river, and not only was it a great learning experience for all of us, I guess, but if this piece of paper could be widely circulated, not only through my book, but we're giving it away, I think that more people would understand where we could begin looking for restoration on the river.
The one side of the map is a-- what you would expect from most maps... shows all the dams, the basin itself in respect to the municipalities that depend upon it, and the opposite side, the back side, is an unusual plumbing chart. It took a lot of time to pull this together. It actually shows all the incoming water, the evaporative water, and the outgoing water to the various farmlands and municipalities. So it's a stunning piece of work. I think, that it's safe to say that even the experts of the Colorado River Basin put it on their office walls and continue to learn about the river's beauty and its
challenges.
MARK MADISON: Audio doesn't do the map justice, but I can attest it's a beautiful map. I haven't seen one like it before.
Well, John, if listeners wanted to learn more about the book or about the map or where you might be speaking, would you have a place you could direct them to?
JONATHAN WATERMAN: I would direct them to my web site, jonathanwaterman.com. I would also direct listeners to savethecolorado.org, which is a philanthropic collection of companies such as New Belgium Brewing and Patagonia that are dedicated to restoring portions of the Colorado River. Savethecolorado.org and jonathanwaterman.com.
MARK MADISON: Well, John, thanks so much for your time, and thanks to all of you who took the time to listen to this Podcast.
JONATHAN WATERMAN: My pleasure. Thanks for having me
10-05 "The Macroeconomics of Development without Throughput Growth"
No full textSerious discussion has begun of policies to promote the goal of increasing well-being without material growth. Moving towards this goal requires a profound reorientation of macroeconomic theory. Importantly, the call by ecological economists to move away from traditional growth-oriented models comes at a moment when standard macroeconomics is in considerable turmoil. The financial crisis of 2008/2009 seriously undermined the basis for mainstream macroeconomics and brought renewed attention to various forms of Keynesian analysis and policy previously regarded as outdated. There is a close complementarity between new Keynesian and ecological perspectives. While older Keynesian analysis was oriented towards promoting growth, a true Keynesian analysis of the relationship between investment and consumption does not depend on a growth orientation. What this analysis has in common with an ecological perspective is the rejection of market optimality assumed in classical models. Moving away from the neoclassical goal of inter-temporal utility maximization allows for different, pluralistic economic goals: full employment, provision of basic needs, social and infrastructure investment, and income equity. These goals are compatible with environmental preservation and resource sustainability, whereas indefinite growth is not. But they require a revitalization of the sphere of social investment, seriously neglected (indeed often omitted completely) in standard models. Reintroducing this perspective allows the development of an economic theory suitable for the transition to a stable-population, low-carbon, resource-conserving global economy. The barriers to this transition are primarily political and institutional, not economic. Specifically, an eco-Keynesian perspective emphasizes new macroeconomic categories including: * human-capital-intensive services * investment in energy-conserving capital * investment in natural and human capital The expansion of these categories provides a basis for growth in wellbeing without growth in throughput, while preserving full employment and economic stability. This paper explores some of the implications of this altered macroeconomic perspective for development in both the global "North" and "South". It is suggested that the problems following the global financial crisis cannot be resolved by a return to traditional growth patterns, and will require large-scale practical policies based on eco-Keynesianism.
Willamette mercury TMDL
No full textprepared for Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 ; prepared by Tetra Tech ; primary authors: Jonathan Butcher, Michelle Schmidt, and Mark Fernandez.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 17, 2019).Covers OCLC #1131808173 and OCLC #1109396369.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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No full text"Published anonymously in 1773 and attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire"--P. [4] of cover. "Seven independent sources list her [Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire] as author, including the most recent and definitive work on the subject, The English novel, which atttibutes the novel to her with a question mark"--P. 10.Includes bibliographical references and index.Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ; edited and with an introduction by Jonathan David Gross
Experimental study of the vortex system generated by a Formula 1 front wing
No full textThis thesis describes the research undertaken on the behaviour of the vortex system generated by a Formula 1 front wing, as it travels about a rotating wheel. This has been realised by investigating the flow structure downstream of a 50% wind tunnel model using flow visualisation, total pressure wake surveys, hot-film anemometry and PIV. The characteristics of the vortex system have been obtained by examining the flow from the wing and endplate without the wheel. This has shown that the wake consists of four co-rotating vortices which interact and merge together. By modifying the ride height of the wing the relative strengths of the vortices are affected resulting in subtle differences to the downstream merging process. The introduction of the wheel substantially affects the vortex system. To analyse its influence the behaviour of a single trailing vortex has been examined as it passes about the wheel. Observations have shown that the trajectory of the vortex is strongly dependant on its initial position and strength ahead of the wheel. With the wheel included, the flow structure generated by the Formula 1 front wing is dominated by the interaction between two vortices. The relative strength and separation of these two structures is affected by both the ride height of the wing and the influences of the rotating wheel. As a result the flow structure formed downstream is dependant on the amount of merging which has taken place. This research has shown that the flow downstream of a Formula 1 front wing is strongly affected by the merging characteristics of the trailing vortex system. Hence by careful consideration of the placement and strength of the vortices it is possible to change the structure of the flow.Open Acces
Reconsidering Arminius: Beyond the Reformed and Wesleyan Divide
No full textThe theology of Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius has been misinterpreted and caricatured in both Reformed and Wesleyan circles. By revisiting Arminius's theology, the book hopes to be a constructive voice in the discourse between so-called Calvinists and Arminians. Traditionally, Arminius has been treated as a divisive figure in evangelical theology. Indeed, one might be able to describe classic evangelical theology up into the twentieth century in relation to his work: one was either an Arminian and accepted his theology or one was a Calvinist and rejected his theology. Although various other movements within evangelicalism have provided additional contour to the movement (fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, etc.), the Calvinist-Arminian 'divide' remains a significant one. What this book seeks to correct is the misinterpretation of Arminius as one whose theology provides a stark contrast to the Reformed tradition as a whole. Indeed, this book will demonstrate instead that Arminius is far more in line with Reformed orthodoxy than popularly believed and show that what emerges as Arminianism in the theology of the Remonstrants and Wesleyan movements was in fact not the theology of Arminius but a development of and sometimes departure from it. This book also brings Arminius into conversation with modern theology. To this end, it includes essays on the relationship between Arminius's theology and open theism and Neo-Reformed theology. In this way, this book fulfills the promise of the title by showing ways in which Arminius's theology—once properly understood—can serve as a resource of evangelical Wesleyans and Calvinists doing theology together today. Abbreviations -- ix Introduction. Reconsidering Arminius: Recasting the Legacy / Mark H. Mann and Mark G. Bilby -- xi-xix Chapter 1. Consecrated through Suffering : the Office of Christ in the Theology of Jacob Arminius / Richard A. Muller -- 1-21 Chapter 2. Was Arminius an Unwitting Determinist? : Another Look at Arminius's Modal Logic / Thomas H. McCall -- 23-37 Chapter 3. Beyond Luther, beyond Calvin, beyond Arminius : the Pilgrims and the Remonstrants in Leiden, 1609-1620 / Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs -- 39-69 Chapter 4. The Loss of Arminius in Wesleyan-Arminian Theology / W. Stephen Gunter -- 71-90 Chapter 5. Jacob Arminius and Jonathan Edwards on the doctrine of creation / Oliver D. Crisp -- 91-112 Chapter 6. Convergence in the "Reformed" theologies of T.F. Torrance and Jacob Arminius / E. Jerome Van Kuiken -- 113-135 Chapter 7. Was Arminius an open theist? : meticulous providence in the theology of Jacob Arminius / John Mark Hicks -- 137-160 Conclusion. Arminius Reconsidered : Thoughts on Arminius and Contemporary Theological Discourse for the Church Today / Keith D. Stanglin -- 161-167 Contributors -- 169Published@book{stanglin2014reconsidering, title= {Reconsidering Arminius: Beyond the Reformed and Wesleyan Divide}, author= {Stanglin, Keith D and Bilby, Mark G and Mann, Mark H}, year= {2014}, publisher= {Kingswood Books}}978142679654
[Rezension zu:] Miriam Havemann: The Subject Rising Against its Author
No full textRezension zu Miriam Havemann: The Subject Rising Against its Author. A Poetics of Rebellion in Bryan Stanley Johnson's Oeuvre. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York (Georg Olms Verlag) 2011 (= ECHO - Literaturwissenschaft im interdisziplinären Dialog, Bd. 13). 427 S.
Mit der Publikation ihrer in der Bochumer Komparatistik eingereichten Dissertation widmet sich Miriam Havemann einem bis vor wenigen Jahren fast in Vergessenheit geratenen britischen Schriftsteller der 1960er und 1970er Jahre, dessen Arbeiten erst mit dem Erscheinen von Jonathan Coes Biographie 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' (2004) und der Wiederauflage vieler seiner Romane neue Beachtung fanden
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