Faith Forming Faith, Faith Shaping Ministry

Here are these three different gifts of our Lutheran theological and liturgical tradition that help us bear baptismal fruit that will last, once we’re out of the font: Luther’s baptismal theology of a daily dying and rising. The weekly rhythm of the assembly gathering around Word and Sacrament. The wonder and mystery that is the liturgical year. Each of these gifts in their own way urge and equip us to get beyond the waters of an individualized baptismal security tank and into the world to serve, the very place to which the tide of our baptismal waters is meant to carry us

The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century La Florida

The sixteenth-century history of what the Spaniards called La Florida (roughly the entire Southeastern United States)1 starts with what to us is a mystery and ends nearly as obscurely after passing a number of well-known and oft-narrated episodes of exploration, Pedro Menendez de Aviles\u27 founding of an enduring colony as part of the Franco-Spanish cold war of 1559-1593, the martyrdoms of Jesuit and then Franciscan missionaries (1571; 1597 respectively), and finally territorial rivalries as the English began their colonial ventures in eastern North America. Until the 1950s, the historiography of these well-known episodes generally reflected the interests of lay, clerical and professional historians and the shifting historiographical trends of the larger profession as it moved from the mid-nineteenth-century Romantic interest in heroes like Hernando De Soto to institutional history (notably the missions) and then to topics from the later centuries of La Florida\u27s history associated in some way with the history of the United States.2 Much of this work remains of value because it is solidly based in archival sources but there is relatively little of it because few United States or Spanish scholars paid much attention to La Florida. However, beginning in the 1960s the familiar episodes again attracted attention from historians like Albert Manucy, Michael V. Gannon, Eugene Lyon, Jerald Milanich, Arny Turner Bushnell, John Worth, Jr., Michael Francis, Daniel Murphree and your author. These writers use an expanded base of original sources, evidence from historical archaeology, some social-scientific models and ideas, and contextual knowledge of the Spanish empire as a whole. Although not tracking precisely the larger trends of the profession in the late twentieth century-in particular its emphasis on social history-the historical writing of the post 1965 period did begin to develop that story, as well as the colony\u27s economic history, and interaction with Native Americans. All are more difficult to document than the old standards. And even for the standard stories, some mysteries remain and many details are still silent in the archives. What follows is an indication of the best current scholarship on these topics, and comments on what remains to be fully studied. We begin with bibliographic guides

Faith Forming Faith, Faith Shaping Ministry

Here are these three different gifts of our Lutheran theological and liturgical tradition that help us bear baptismal fruit that will last, once we’re out of the font: Luther’s baptismal theology of a daily dying and rising. The weekly rhythm of the assembly gathering around Word and Sacrament. The wonder and mystery that is the liturgical year. Each of these gifts in their own way urge and equip us to get beyond the waters of an individualized baptismal security tank and into the world to serve, the very place to which the tide of our baptismal waters is meant to carry us

Accounts of the Real Hacienda, Florida, 1565 to 1602

The P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida has recently acquired from the Archive of the Indies five reels of microfilm containing all photographable documents from legajos number 941 to 949 inclusive of Contaduria (see Table I, for contents). These documents are the accounts of the royal officials for the provinces of Florida from 1565 to 1602. They consist of audited copies of three basic sets of books: the accounts of agents sent to collect the subsidy (situado) in Havana or Vera Cruz, the accounts of the treasurers, and the accounts of the factors and other persons charged with the care and distribution of food, munitions, and other supplies purchased for the Florida garrisons. Through the use of these sources it is possible to learn a variety of socio-economic facts about life in Florida during the second half of the sixteenth century

What determines cognitive estimation ability? Changing contributions of semantic and executive domains as a function of age

The Cognitive Estimation Test (CET) is commonly used in neuropsychological assessment. It is typically assumed to load on executive functions, although research has shown that CET performance also depends on access to semantic knowledge. It is unknown whether these contributions vary with age. It is important to examine this question as these abilities have divergent life course trajectories: executive functions tend to decline as people age but semantic knowledge continues to accrue. In addition, previous research has not examined potential contributions to CET performance from semantic control abilities, that is cognitive control processes involved specifically in the retrieval and use of semantic information. To address these questions, we investigated cognitive predictors of CET performance in healthy young and older adults. We found that better executive function was associated with more accurate estimation in both age groups. However, the effect of semantic knowledge on CET performance was significantly larger in older people, having no predictive power in the younger group. The ability to detect weak semantic associations, which is thought to index controlled search and retrieval of semantic information, also had divergent effects on CET performance in the two age groups. Our results provide empirical support for the idea that older people are more reliant on semantic knowledge when estimating quantities, which may explain why age‐related decline in CET scores is not typically found. We conclude that deficits on the CET may be indicative either of semantic or executive impairments, particularly in older age groups

Short-time dynamics of finite-size mean-field systems

We study the short-time dynamics of a mean-field model with non-conserved order parameter (Curie-Weiss with Glauber dynamics) by solving the associated Fokker-Planck equation. We obtain closed-form expressions for the first moments of the order parameter, near to both the critical and spinodal points, starting from different initial conditions. This allows us to confirm the validity of the short-time dynamical scaling hypothesis in both cases. Although the procedure is illustrated for a particular mean-field model, our results can be straightforwardly extended to generic models with a single order parameter.Comment: accepted for publication in JSTA