On Community in the Political Theology of Jacob Taubes

The present paper aims to analyse through a systematic approach the notion of “community” encountered in the works of Jacob Taubes. Under a theologico-political scenario, the author discusses the political framework of Saint Paul in his Letter to the Romans. According to Taubes, the Apostle inaugurates a new type of sovereignty — acquired by the grace of God, and not by the divine law. Ultimately, the plan of Paul is to create a new “life” for the community of Christians through spirit (gr. πνεῦμα) and the highest form of love (gr. ἀγάπη). According to the author, the Letter to the Romans perfectly illustrates the transformation of the political, where the idea of hierarchy is replaced with the one of equilibrium; under this equation religion is not authority, but participation in community. From a more practical point of view, the political theology of Jacob Taubes is interested in answering the following dilemma: how is it possible for a community that sees its Lord crucified on the Cross not to create rebellions, but, on the contrary, to generally cultivate an obedient attitude towards state authority? Ultimately, while mapping the author’s understanding of community, the paper also brings into attention what the transformation of the political means for Taubes and why political theology is the scenario that accommodates the revolutionised community.

KẾT QUẢ PHẪU THUẬT NỘI SOI ĐIỀU TRỊ ĐỨT DÂY CHẰNG CHÉO TRƯỚC CÓ SỬ DỤNG VẬT LIỆU HỖ TRỢ BÊN TRONG

Mục tiêu của nghiên cứu nhằm đánh giá kết quả phẫu thuật nội soi điều trị đứt dây chằng chéo trước có sử dụng vật liệu hỗ trợbên trong. Thiết kế nghiên cứu can thiệp lâm sàng không đối chứng trên 31 bệnh nhân được chẩn đoán đứt dây chằng chéo trước và được phẫu thuật nội soi điều trị bằng nẹp hỗ trợ bên trong (internal brace)tại Bệnh viện Đại học Y Hà Nội và Bệnh viện Đa khoa Saint Paul, từ tháng 01/2019 đến tháng 12/2020. Kết quả cho thấy tuổi trung bình là 29,87 ± 7,9; tỷ số nam/nữ = 4,2; Thời gian phẫu thuật trung bình là là 102,3 ± 15,5 phút, thời gian nằm viện trung bình là 6,0 ± 1,0 ngày.Thang điểm Lysholm trước phẫu thuật trung bình là 60,2 ± 3,7.Sau phẫu thuật 6 tháng, giá trị trung bình của điểm Lysholm được cải thiện tốt (91,2±11,7);tỷ lệ đạt kết quả tốt và rất tốt (87,1%). Điểm mức độ hoạt động Tegner trung bình trước chấn thương là6,3±0,6 (dao động từ 5-7); trước phẫu thuật là 3,3±1,1 (dao động từ 1-5). Tại thời điểm sáu tháng sau phẫu thuật, giá trị trung bình của điểm này là 5,0±1,2 (dao động từ 2-7). Phẫu thuật nội soi điều trị đứt dây chằng chéo trước có sử dụng vật liệu hỗ trợ bên trong cho kết quả rất khả quan.

New records of two teleost species from two insular areas of the western equatorial Atlantic

We report the first record of two teleost species from two archipelagos in the western equatorial Atlantic. We recorded the occurrence of Cantherhines pullus (Ranzani, 1842) (Monacanthidae, Tetraodontiformes) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, a group of volcanic islands 345 km off the northeastern coast of Brazil. We also report the first regional record of Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hemiramphidae, Beloniformes) from the Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Archipelago, which is a small and isolated group of rocky islands 520 km from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

First record of Torquigener flavimaculosus (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from Réunion island

The first record of the yellow-spotted puffer, Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy et Randall, 1983, on Reunion Island is confirmed by numerous video observations and by the capture of a specimen. This tetraodontid fish has been reported from the western Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean. In this report, we confirm its presence in Saint-Paul Bay in Réunion and this new observation completes the ichthyological inventory of Réunion Island.

Doing God’s Will: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Life of Purpose by Larry L. Macon Sr. (A Book Review)

Weronika Kurasz's review of Larry L. Macon Senior's Doing God’s Will: Martin Luther King Jr. and a Life of Purpose. Saint Paul Press, 2019.

Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago barcoded: fish diversity in the remoteness and DNA barcodes reference library for metabarcoding monitoring

Anthropogenic pressures have been depleting the global biodiversity. In order to monitor the changes in ecosystems, molecular techniques can be used to characterize species composition. Among molecular markers capable of identifying species, the COI is the most used, and its sequencing is the standard procedure of how taxonomic information can be surveyed. Despite this, new possibilities of biodiversity profiling have become possible through the assessment of highly fragmented DNA molecules in environmental samples. Now, medium- and short-length markers are used in metabarcoding studies. Here, a survey of marine fish from the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago was barcoded, in which the COI barcode procedure identified 21 species of 11 families of fish. Then, the first extensive COI library of these islands located in isolation was constructed; from these sequences, the most appropriate primer pair for future metabarcoding studies was identified. The new Saint Peter and Saint Paul sequence database has 9,183 sequences from 165 species and 62 families of fish. The overall mean distance among all sequences was 0.4. This distance reveals that the archipelago is a reservoir of biodiversity as this attribute is higher than other islands around the world. Due to this, the protection of the archipelago should be enhanced and well monitored with science-based approaches such as DNA metabarcoding. In this case, the primer pair specifically designed from this library should be considered.