Diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department.

Pneumonia is a condition that is often treated by emergency physicians. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department and highlights dilemmas in diagnostic testing, use of blood and sputum cultures, hospital admission decisions, infection control, quality measures for pneumonia care, and empiric antimicrobial therapy

Vital Relations and Major Structural Relationships: Heuristic Approaches to Observe and Explore Biblical and Other Discourse

In their book, The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities (2002), Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner describe within Conceptual Integration Theory (CIT) a set of “vital relations” (VRs) at the core of meaning making that compress and blend ideas simultaneously. “Compression in blending networks operates on a surprisingly small set of relations rooted in fundamental human neurobiology and shared social experience. These vital relations, which include Cause-Effect, Change, Time, Identity, Intentionality, Representation, and Part-Whole, not only apply across mental spaces but also define essential topology within mental spaces” (xiii). Additional VRs include Role, Analogy, Disanalogy, Property, Similarity, Category, Intentionality, and Uniqueness. Taken as a whole, these VRs correspond quite well with Major Structural Relationships (MSRs) as used in Inductive Bible Study (IBS), which include Recurrence, Comparison, Contrast, Introduction, Causation, Substantiation, Generalization, Particularization, Summarization, Problem-Solution, Instrumentation, Pivot, and Climax. These MSRs are ubiquitous and observable across all types of human communication. The observation of MSRs occurs at all levels of discourse (phrases, clause, paragraph, sections, units, and discourse as a whole). In written discourse, these relations are both explicitly marked through conjunctions and particles and implicitly indicated through literary arrangement and inference. This article explores how VRs and MSRs mutually inform one another, and illustrate through many examples how the application of VRs and MSRs may successfully instruct students of Scripture, not only to make acute observations of biblical materials, but also of all human discourse

NT 520 New Testament Introduction

COURSE DESCRIPTION: An introduction to (1) the literature of the New Testament in its socio-historical, literary and canonical contexts; and (2) critical study of the New Testament.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3570/thumbnail.jp

BS 505 Introduction to Biblical Studies: New Testament

1. A Bible with Old and New Testaments (NASB95, ESV, NRSV, or RSV recommended; but NIV is acceptable). 2. David Bauer, An Annotated Guide to Biblical Resources for Ministry. Annotated Guides 16. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2003. NOTE: This resource 3. The Essential IVP Reference Collection. Version 2. InterVarsity, 2001, a. Green, Joel B., Scot McKnight, and I. Howard Marshall. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. [=DJG] electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000, c1992. b. Hawthorne, Gerald F., Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid. Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. [=DPL] electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000, c1993. c. Martin, Ralph P., and Peter H. Davids. Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments. [=DLNTD] electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000, c1997. d. Porter, Stanley E., and Craig A. Evans. Dictionary of New Testament Background: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. [=DNTB] electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000. e. Matthews, Victor Harold, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament. electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000. f. Keener, Craig S., and InterVarsity Press. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000, c1993. g. Wood, D. R. W. New Bible Dictionary. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1996, c1982, c1962. h. Carson, D. A. New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition. 4th ed. Leicester, England; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1994. i. Kaiser, Walter C. Hard Sayings of the Bible. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1997, c1996. j. Ryken, Leland, Jim Wilhoit, Tremper Longman, Colin Duriez, Douglas Penney, and Daniel G. Reid. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000, c1998. k. Bimson, John J., and J.P. Kane. New Bible Atlas. electronic ed. Wheaton, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000, c1985. l. Alexander, T. Desmond, and Brian S. Rosner. New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2001. m. Grenz, Stanley, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling. Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1999. n. Ferguson, Sinclair B., and J.I. Packer. New Dictionary of Theology. electronic ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000, c1988. o. DeMoss, Matthew S. Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2001. p. Evans, C. Stephen. Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2002. q. Patzia, Arthur G., and Anthony J. Petrotta. Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2002.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3610/thumbnail.jp

Major Structural Relationships: A Survey of Origins, Development, Classifications, and Assessment

A central feature to Inductive Bible Study (IBS) are Major Structural Relationships (MSRs), despite some variation in the number, identification, descriptions, and organization of them. These relationships are endemic to human communication; hence, their description is vital for accurate and holistic observation of biblical materials. The origin of MSRs is traceable to the 19th century art instruction of John Ruskin. He himself was aware that his insights into composition extended beyond artistic to musical and literary composition. Practitioners of IBS have continued to develop and describe rigorously methodologies surrounding the identification of MSRs, especially at Asbury Theological Seminary. A survey and review of the development of MSRs within the IBS movement reveals that stability of their identification as well as an openness to refine them (even adding to them) has been an asset for practitioners of IBS. The genius of IBS has been its major practitioners’ conceiving MSRs as central in the quest for truth, and especially the truth of God’s Word