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"It is the Spirit that Gives Life"

A Stoic Understanding of Pneuma in John's Gospel

By: Gitte Buch-Hansen

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"It is the Spirit that Gives Life"

A Stoic Understanding of Pneuma in John's Gospel

By: Gitte Buch-Hansen

Since Origen and Chrysostom, John’s Gospel has been valued as the most spiritual among the New Testament writings. Although Origen recognizes the Stoic character of John’s statement that “God is pneuma” (4:24), an examination of the gospel in light of Stoic physics has not yet been carried out. Combining her insight into Stoic physics and ancient physiology, the author situates her thesis in the major discussions of modern Johannine scholarship – e.g. the role of the Baptist and the function of the Johannine signs – and demonstrates new solutions to well-known problems. The Stoic study of the Fourth Gospel reveals a coherent narrative tied together by the spirit. The problem with which John’s Gospel wrestles is not the identity of Jesus, but the transition from the Son of God to the next generation of divinely begotten children: how did it come about? A reading carried out from a Stoic perspective points to the translation of the risen body of Jesus into spirit as the decisive event. The provision of the spirit is a precondition of the divine generation of believers. Both events are explained by Stoic theory which allows of a transformation of fleshly elements into pneuma and of multiple fatherhood. In fact, in his Commentary on John, Origen described Jesus’ ascension as an event of anastoixeiôsis, which is the Stoic term for the transformation of heavily elements into lighter and pneumatic ones.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110225980

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9783110225983

Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture

By: Gitte Marianne Hansen

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Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture

By: Gitte Marianne Hansen

From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture. This book examines the relationship between normative femininity and women’s self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese culture. To theoretically define the complexities that constitute normativity, the book develops the concept of ‘contradictive femininity’ and shows how in Japanese culture, women’s paradoxical roles are thematised through three character construction techniques, broadly derived from the doppelgänger motif. It then demonstrates how eating disorders and self-harm are included in normative femininity and suggests that such self-directed violence can be interpreted as coping strategies to overcome feelings of fragmentation related to contradictive femininity. Looking at novels, artwork, manga, anime, TV dramas and news stories, the book analyses both globally well known Japanese culture such as Murakami Haruki’s literary works and Miyazaki Hayao’s animation, as well as culture unavailable to non-Japanese readers. The aim of juxtaposing such diverse narrative and visual culture is to map common storylines and thematisation techniques about normative femininity, self-harm and eating disorders. Furthermore, it shows how women’s private struggles with their own bodies have become public discourse available for consumption as entertainment and lifestyle products. Highly interdisciplinary, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese studies, Japanese culture and society and gender and women's studies, as well as to academics and consumers of Japanese literature, manga and animation.

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360

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Routledge

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1317444388

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9781317444381

Everyday Products in the Middle Ages

Crafts, Consumption and the individual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600

By: Gitte Hansen

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Everyday Products in the Middle Ages

Crafts, Consumption and the individual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600

By: Gitte Hansen

The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. In so doing, this book seeks to draw attention away from the emergent trend to return to systems and global models, and restore to centre stage what should be the archaeologists most important concern: the people of the past.

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385

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Oxbow Books

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1782978054

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PFAS in paper and board for food contact

Options for risk management of poly- and perfluorinated substances

By: Xenia Trier,Camilla Taxvig,Anna Kjerstine Rosenmai,Gitte Alsing Pedersen

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PFAS in paper and board for food contact

Options for risk management of poly- and perfluorinated substances

By: Xenia Trier,Camilla Taxvig,Anna Kjerstine Rosenmai,Gitte Alsing Pedersen

Poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are used in paper and board food contact materials (FCMs) and they have been found to be highly persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic. The purpose of the Nordic workshop and of this report is to: * create an overview of the use of PFAS in FCMs of paper and board and of the toxicity and migration into food of the various substances * provide an overview of whether appropriate risk assessments for fluorinated substances exist as a basis for specific regulations or recommendations * provide an overview of whether analytical methods suitable for analysing and regulating the substances are available * discuss the possibility and structure of national regulations or Nordic recommendations for PFAS in FCMs of paper and board. Risk management to reduce the total content of organically bound fluorine in paper and board FCMs is supported.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289353295

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9789289353298

LEADERSHIP BY CARE OR MANAGEMENT BY FEAR

By: Gitte Sparsø

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LEADERSHIP BY CARE OR MANAGEMENT BY FEAR

By: Gitte Sparsø

Writing this book has been on my mind for many years. The book is based on my experience with a particular profile type I call bandits, who are destructive to, among other things, a healthy work environment. They move freely on land and in cities, in companies and in private life. Despite their destructive behavior towards others, they often manage to fly under the radar, where they create fear, particularly in the workplace, with their manipulative and toxic behavior. A bandit can be your boss, colleague, or employee who manipulates solely for personal gain, at the expense of others, and can thus break down other people through psychological violence. If fear has already infected your workplace, it often requires great courage and endurance to stand up against the bandit or bandits. Only through sharing knowledge can we quell the power of taboos. Often, when we have received the necessary knowledge and insight, we are no longer as fearful, and the bandit can no longer spread their poison. As Plato said: "Understanding spreads slowly, but it spreads nonetheless." As a curiosity, four top executives from Danish business tell their story of encountering a bandit and the ser

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Saxo Publish

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8740402118

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Bards and Sages Quarterly

April 2014

By: Elizabeth Buhmann,Michael Young,Milo James Fowler,Gitte Christensen

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Bards and Sages Quarterly

April 2014

By: Elizabeth Buhmann,Michael Young,Milo James Fowler,Gitte Christensen

Since 2009, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has brought fans of speculative fiction an amazing variety of short stories from both new and established authors. Each issue sets out to introduce readers to the wealth of talent found in the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. Our authors have included Nebula, Hugo, and Pushcart winners and nominees. In this issue: An interview with bestselling author Elizabeth Buhmann A library patron comes across an unexpected entity while browsing for something to read in "Bookwyrm." An exiled warrior's quest for revenge takes an unexpected turn in "Fate's Lonely Shore." Plus more original fiction.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1499613121

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"It is the Spirit that Gives Life"

"It is the Spirit that Gives Life"

Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Everyday Products in the Middle Ages

Everyday Products in the Middle Ages

PFAS in paper and board for food contact

PFAS in paper and board for food contact

LEADERSHIP BY CARE OR MANAGEMENT BY FEAR

LEADERSHIP BY CARE OR MANAGEMENT BY FEAR

Bards and Sages Quarterly

Bards and Sages Quarterly

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