Almost One-Quarter of California Nonelderly Women Uninsured in 2009

Based on 2009 California Health Interview Survey data, outlines trends in women's health coverage by type and the percentage of uninsured women by age, race/ethnicity, income, family and work status, and region. Examines the role of the safety net

Denominating Augustine. The Controversial Reception of Augustine’s Semiotics in Late Medieval and Early Protestant Scholasticism

Throughout the Middle Ages up to the 17 th century, Augustine’s conception of signs, as presented in De doctrina christiana II, was the common starting point of any semiotic discussion. Around 1600, however, the majority of Lutheran scholastics started, in open dispute with their denominational counterparts, the Calvinists, to explicitly reject the father’s definition of a sign as ‘a thing which, in addition to the impression it makes on the senses, also brings something else to mind’. This controversy was caused less by differing logical assumptions and was motivated more by contradicting theological convictions about Christ’s presence in the Eucharist: To keep the basic (and likewise Augustinian) conception of the sacrament as a sign, the Lutherans, defending Christ’s real presence in the sacrament, had to concede a sign to be self -referential, while the Calvinists, conceiving of the sacrament as a reminiscential symbol of Christ’s passion, could hold on Augustine’s definition of a sign as referring to something else . It was this sacramental debate that determined the value of Augustine’s semiotic sayings, giving thus a denominational shape to a merely logical matter. The paper aims to present this denominational reception of Augustine’s semiotics, analysing its theological entanglements and tracing it back to the late medieval roots not only of the two conquering semiotic positions, but of their respective theological background as well

Utilitas als anti-spekulatives Motiv. Zur Rezeption eines Gerson’schen Anliegens im ausgehenden Mittelalter

Jean Gerson, chancellor of the university of Paris and influential theologian at the council of Constance, was known for his constant fight against curiosity. Instead of getting lost in futile speculation, theologians were admonished by him to take the utility of their research and teaching into account, a utility which, according to Gerson, manifested itself in its fruitful and edifying effect. He promoted this program or stylus, as he called it, as chancellor of the Parisian university in his many attempts to reform the curriculum, and he gave a practical demonstration of it to an international audience when opposing Jerome of Prague at Constance. But to what extent was this style received in the academic culture of the 15 th century? This paper traces the impact of Gerson’s stylus in a few Sentences commentaries, starting with contemporaries of Gerson such as Lambertus de Monte and Nicholas of Dinkelsbuhl, and moving on to later examples at the turn of the 16 th century and John Mair in particular. It becomes apparent that Gerson’s stylus took some time to be received, but then ironically stimulated even more sophisticated approaches to theological problems

A Companion to Reformed Orthodoxy, hg. von Herman J. Selderhuis, 2013

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