Herald of Holiness Volume 65 Number 17 (1976)

01 Cover Photo by Nazarene Communications 02 Communicating the Gospel by General Superintendent Orville W. Jenkins 03 The University Campus: A Decisive Point by Ernie McNaught 03 Today by Donna Litherland 04 Proclaim the Gospel by Rene Escalante 05 Nazarene Communications the Church Has Something To Say 06 We Were There! by Paul Skiles 08 Tilak and Christ by Doris Anderson 09 Radio and Cultural Relevancy by Ray Hendrix 10 The Booze Tube by Nicholas Johnson 11 A Conversation with David Whitelaw of the South African District 12 How Can I Be Sure? by Frank Moore 13 Holiness Helps Us To See by Lyle P. Flinner 14 I Believe...The Priesthood of All Believers by Theodore P. Esselstyn 15 The Glory of the Ordinary by Freeman Hodgins 16 On Meeting Emotional Needs by James Dobson 17 Happiness Is...God\u27s Word by Pauline E. Spray 18 Editorials by John A. Knight 30 News of Religion 31 Answer Corner 34 By All Means by Flora L. McIntirehttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/2201/thumbnail.jp

The Brauer-Manin obstruction on Kummer varieties and ranks of twists of abelian varieties

Let r > 0 be an integer. We present a sufficient condition for an abelian variety A over a number field k to have infinitely many quadratic twists of rank at least r, in terms of density properties of rational points on the Kummer variety Km(A^r) of the r-fold product of A with itself. One consequence of our results is the following. Fix an abelian variety A over k, and suppose that for some r > 0 the Brauer-Manin obstruction to weak approximation on the Kummer variety Km(A^r) is the only one. Then A has a quadratic twist of rank at least r. Hence if the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only one to weak approximation on all Kummer varieties, then ranks of twists of any positive-dimensional abelian variety are unbounded. This relates two significant open questions.Comment: 12 pages; final versio

The Evil Demon Inside

This paper examines how new evil demon problems could arise for our access to the internal world of our own minds. I start by arguing that the internalist/externalist debate in epistemology has been widely misconstrued---we need to reconfigure the debate in order to see how it can arise about our access to the internal world. I then argue for the coherence of scenarios of radical deception about our own minds, and I use them to defend a properly formulated internalist view about our access to our minds. The overarching lesson is that general epistemology and the specialized epistemology of introspection need to talk---each has much to learn from each other

The Politics of (Mis)recognition: Islamic Law Pedagogy in American Academia

The combination of presence (of Islamic law) and absence (of legal transplant) in the course materials assigned by Islamic law instructors, the scholarship on law in the Islamic world by Islamic law scholars as well as by Comparatists, betrays an ideological project. I would describe it as an identitarian one with an underlying teleological notion of history. By identitarian I mean the positing of a common identity shared by all Muslims based on their religio/legal beliefs, a project that to my mind recalls what I called earlier the fantasy effect. [F]antasy is the means by which real relations of identity between past and present are discovered and/or forged. In this instance what is being fantasized through the assigned materials and the scholarship is the identity between Muslims in their past and Muslims in their present, as well as the identity between Muslims\u27 relationship to their law in the past and their relationship to their law in the present. This ideological project has an underlying teleological notion of history because it assumes that the spirit of Islamic law marches through history unencumbered by the world\u27s contingencies (in this case the legal transplant). The latter might sever the relationship between Muslims-in-the-world with the spirit of their law, but this is only momentary and is destined to end. The spirit, ultimately, will be joined with its believers because the contingencies of history are inconsequential for this pre-ordained relation between believer and idea. Short of this moment of re-joining with the spirit, Muslims are destined to feel the bite of existential alienation

On the Scalability of Data Reduction Techniques in Current and Upcoming HPC Systems from an Application Perspective

We implement and benchmark parallel I/O methods for the fully-manycore driven particle-in-cell code PIConGPU. Identifying throughput and overall I/O size as a major challenge for applications on today's and future HPC systems, we present a scaling law characterizing performance bottlenecks in state-of-the-art approaches for data reduction. Consequently, we propose, implement and verify multi-threaded data-transformations for the I/O library ADIOS as a feasible way to trade underutilized host-side compute potential on heterogeneous systems for reduced I/O latency.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted for DRBSD-1 in conjunction with ISC'1