Juifs et chrétiens selon Luc-Actes : une quête d'identité.

(Résumé de l'ouvrage) La question est souvent posée brutalement : « Le Nouveau Testament est-il anti-juif ? » Comment le message d'amour de Jésus a-t-il pu entraîné et même justifié le mépris, la haine et les violences des chrétiens envers les Juifs, au long des deux millénaires ? Que pensaient exactement les auteurs des évangiles, des Actes des Apôtres et des épîtres ? Comment leurs écrits ont-ils été compris au siècle suivant ? Cinq spécialistes éclairent ces questions en proposant des lectures attentives des divers textes du Nouveau Testament qui parlent des Juifs. Cette étude est fondamentale pour reprendre sur des bases honnêtes et respectueuses le dialogue interrompu dès le 2e siècle. Il y va de notre fidélité à l'Évangile de Jésus-Messie qui réunit et sépare à la fois Juifs et chrétiens.

Resistance to oxidative stress is associated with metastasis in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis.

Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL) in South and Central America is characterized by the dissemination (metastasis) of Leishmania Viannia subgenus parasites from a cutaneous lesion to nasopharyngeal tissues. Little is known about the pathogenesis of MCL, especially with regard to the virulence of the parasites and the process of metastatic dissemination. We previously examined the functional relationship between cytoplasmic peroxiredoxin and metastatic phenotype using highly, infrequently, and nonmetastatic clones isolated from an L. (V.) guyanensis strain previously shown to be highly metastatic in golden hamsters. Distinct forms of cytoplasmic peroxiredoxin were identified and found to be associated with the metastatic phenotype. We report here that peroxidase activity in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and infectivity differs between metastatic and nonmetastatic L. (V.) guyanensis clones. After hydrogen peroxide treatment or heat shock, peroxiredoxin was detected preferentially as dimers in metastatic L. (V.) guyanensis clones and in L. (V.) panamensis strains from patients with MCL, compared with nonmetastatic parasites. These data provide evidence that resistance to the first microbicidal response of the host cell by Leishmania promastigotes is linked to peroxiredoxin conformation and may be relevant to intracellular survival and persistence, which are prerequisites for the development of metastatic disease.

Le coeur inquiet du christianisme

(Résumé du numéro) Prophéties et visions du futur Notre époque se méfie des prophètes, mais fait confiance aux astrologues, devins et autres voyantes... Y compris dans les plus hautes sphères du pouvoir! Ce surgissement de l'irrationnel dans une société fière de sa "science" laisse perplexe. De telles croyances, dont le caractère païen est parfois souligné, entretiennent dans l'esprit du public une confusion fâcheuse entre prophétie et prédiction. Le prophétisme s'en trouve dévalorisé, alors qu'il a joué à certains moments un rôle décisif dans l'histoire de l'humanité. "L'avez-vous remarqué?", écrivait il y a quelques années Bruno Chenu, "À l'heure actuelle, le thème du prophétisme semble s'être évanoui du paysage, tant social qu'ecclésial. Il n'y a plus grand monde pour se risquer à une interpellation forte, à une mise en cause radicale, à une proposition dérangeante. [...] Nous sommes à l'âge des croyances molles. N'est-il pas grand temps de retrouver, collectivement et personnellement, l'inspiration prophétique?" (1). Le prophète est une figure centrale des religions monothéistes. Il porte la sagesse du message divin que les hommes ne savent pas discerner. Donc, il dérange. Et si sa parole est écoutée, voire sollicitée, dans les périodes d'incertitudes, il devient gênant dès lors que le pouvoir - religieux ou politique - pense avoir repris en main les destinées de la communauté. "L'avenir n'est à personne, sire, l'avenir est à Dieu" rappelle, trop tard!, Victor Hugo à Napoléon 1er. Il est vrai que la condamnation des prophètes est souvent consécutive à une catastrophe déclenchée par de "faux" prophètes. La difficulté à identifier la véritable prophétie a entraîné à plusieurs reprises l'annonce de l'extinction du prophétisme, par les sages juifs au deuxième siècle avant notre ère, ou lorsque le christianisme devient la religion officielle de l'Empire romain. À chaque fois, le prophétisme est réapparu, comme si la religion ne pouvait en faire l'économie. C'est l'une des leçons qui ressort le plus clairement du dossier que nous consacrons au couple tumultueux que constituent prophètes et visions du futur. Le prophète porte aussi les espoirs de l'humanité. Un monde sans prophètes serait-il un monde sans espérance?

L'usage du narratif dans le Testament de Joseph

(Résumé de l'ouvrage) Seventeen innovative studies are collected in this volume which has been produced under the aegis of the Centre for Biblical Studies, University of Manchester, and L'Institut des sciences bibliques, Université de Lausanne. The majority of the studies engage with narrative through providing insightful working examples. Building on the many contributions of recent narratological research, for the most part the studies in this collection avoid the technical language of narratology as they present fresh insights at many levels. Some essays focus more on the implied author, some on the implied reader or hearer, and some on the way particular messages are constructed; some of the studies consider how author, message and reader are all interconnected. There are several creative proposals for refining genre definition, from law and wisdom to gospel and apocryphal writings. Some studies highlight the way in which narratives can contain ethical, religious, and cultural messages. Sensitivity to narrative is also shown by some contributors to expose in intruing ways the redactional processes behind the final form of texts. Students of narrative in the ancient world will find much to consider in this book, and others engaged with literary studies more generally will discover that scholars of the worlds of the Bible and Late Antiquity have much to offer them.

Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts - La narrativité dans la Bible et les textes apparentés

Seventeen innovative studies are collected in this volume which has been produced under the aegis of the Centre for Biblical Studies, University of Manchester, and L'Institut des sciences bibliques, Université de Lausanne. The majority of the studies engage with narrative through providing insightful working examples. Building on the many contributions of recent narratological research, for the most part the studies in this collection avoid the technical language of narratology as they present fresh insights at many levels. Some essays focus more on the implied author, some on the implied reader or hearer, and some on the way particular messages are constructed; some of the studies consider how author, message and reader are all interconnected. There are several creative proposals for refining genre definition, from law and wisdom to gospel and apocryphal writings. Some studies highlight the way in which narratives can contain ethical, religious, and cultural messages. Sensitivity to narrative is also shown by some contributors to expose in intruing ways the redactional processes behind the final form of texts. Students of narrative in the ancient world will find much to consider in this book, and others engaged with literary studies more generally will discover that scholars of the worlds of the Bible and Late Antiquity have much to offer them.

Coronary heart disease in primary care: accuracy of medical history and physical findings in patients with chest pain - a study protocol for a systematic review with individual patient data.

BACKGROUND: Chest pain is a common complaint in primary care, with coronary heart disease (CHD) being the most concerning of many potential causes. Systematic reviews on the sensitivity and specificity of symptoms and signs summarize the evidence about which of them are most useful in making a diagnosis. Previous meta-analyses are dominated by studies of patients referred to specialists. Moreover, as the analysis is typically based on study-level data, the statistical analyses in these reviews are limited while meta-analyses based on individual patient data can provide additional information. Our patient-level meta-analysis has three unique aims. First, we strive to determine the diagnostic accuracy of symptoms and signs for myocardial ischemia in primary care. Second, we investigate associations between study- or patient-level characteristics and measures of diagnostic accuracy. Third, we aim to validate existing clinical prediction rules for diagnosing myocardial ischemia in primary care. This article describes the methods of our study and six prospective studies of primary care patients with chest pain. Later articles will describe the main results. METHODS/DESIGN: We will conduct a systematic review and IPD meta-analysis of studies evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of symptoms and signs for diagnosing coronary heart disease in primary care. We will perform bivariate analyses to determine the sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios of individual symptoms and signs and multivariate analyses to explore the diagnostic value of an optimal combination of all symptoms and signs based on all data of all studies. We will validate existing clinical prediction rules from each of the included studies by calculating measures of diagnostic accuracy separately by study. DISCUSSION: Our study will face several methodological challenges. First, the number of studies will be limited. Second, the investigators of original studies defined some outcomes and predictors differently. Third, the studies did not collect the same standard clinical data set. Fourth, missing data, varying from partly missing to fully missing, will have to be dealt with.Despite these limitations, we aim to summarize the available evidence regarding the diagnostic accuracy of symptoms and signs for diagnosing CHD in patients presenting with chest pain in primary care. REVIEW REGISTRATION: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (University of York): CRD42011001170.

Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the spine in a 4-year-old girl.

Primary spinal atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor is extremely rare. The authors present a case of atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor occurring in a 4-year-old girl. Magnetic resonance imaging The authors showed an intramedullary mass extending from the bulbomedullary junction to T1 with leptomeningeal dissemination. The patient died 2 weeks after diagnosis.

The God of the Book of Acts

(Résumé de l'ouvrage) Seventeen innovative studies are collected in this volume which has been produced under the aegis of the Centre for Biblical Studies, University of Manchester, and L'Institut des sciences bibliques, Université de Lausanne. The majority of the studies engage with narrative through providing insightful working examples. Building on the many contributions of recent narratological research, for the most part the studies in this collection avoid the technical language of narratology as they present fresh insights at many levels. Some essays focus more on the implied author, some on the implied reader or hearer, and some on the way particular messages are constructed; some of the studies consider how author, message and reader are all interconnected. There are several creative proposals for refining genre definition, from law and wisdom to gospel and apocryphal writings. Some studies highlight the way in which narratives can contain ethical, religious, and cultural messages. Sensitivity to narrative is also shown by some contributors to expose in intruing ways the redactional processes behind the final form of texts. Students of narrative in the ancient world will find much to consider in this book, and others engaged with literary studies more generally will discover that scholars of the worlds of the Bible and Late Antiquity have much to offer them.

The Original Risk: Over-Theologizing Ethics and Under-Theologizing Sin

The project of articulating a theological ethics on the basis of liturgical anthropology is bound to fail if the necessary consequence is that one has to quit the forum of critical modern rationality. The risk of Engelhardt's approach is to limit rationality to a narrow vision of reason. Sin is not to be understood as the negation of human holiness, but as the negation of divine holiness. The only way to renew theological ethics is to understand sin as the anthropological and ethical expression of the biblical message of the justification by faith only. Sin is therefore a secondary category, which can only by interpreted in light of the positive manifestation of liberation, justification, and grace. The central issue of Christian ethics is not ritual purity or morality, but experience, confession and recognition of our own injustice in our dealing with God and men.

Learning charisma: Transform yourself into someone people want to follow

Jana stands at the podium, palms sweaty, looking out at hundreds of colleagues who are waiting to hear about her new initiative. Bill walks into a meeting after a failed product launch to greet an exhausted and demotivated team that desperately needs his direction. Robin gets ready to confront a brilliant but underperforming subordinate who needs to be put back on track. We've all been in situations like these. What they require is charisma-the ability to communicate a clear, visionary, and inspirational message that captivates and motivates an audience. In this article, we discuss how one learns to be more charismatic