This essay explores the development of Tillich’s writings on relationship between divine providence and suffering, his approach to theodicy. First, I attend various stations early life earliest in genres. Here we see instrumental-pedagogical theodicies student days preaching give way an increased emphasis suffering God. However, unlike many twentieth century theologies Tillich retains a strong ...

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In recent years, there has been a renewal of interest in the spiritual significance of the natural world. This development is evident for instance in certain strands of the environmental movement, and in the growing interest in the religions of indigenous peoples. In this article, I consider one important attempt to give the natural world such significance in terms of the framework of tradition...

BACKGROUND Prescription opioid-acetaminophen products account for the majority of cases of acetaminophen-related acute liver failure in the United States. We sought to examine the frequency of opioid-acetaminophen overuse at the Providence VA Medical Center and improve the quality and safety of opioid-acetaminophen prescription practices in a system employing electronic health records and e-pre...

Ting C. Zhao, Andy Tseng, Naohiro Yano, YiTang Tseng, Pamela A. Davol, Randall J. Lee, Lawrence G. Lum, and James F. Padbury Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Department of Research, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island; University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, Ca...

1Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung 433, Taiwan 2Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Providence University, Taichung 433, Taiwan 3Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chung Hua University, Hsinchu 30012, Taiwan 4School of Computing and Mathematics, Computer Science Research Institute, Unive...

1Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 2Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, 53100 Siena, Italy 3EpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI 02903, USA 4 Institute for Immunology and Informatics, University of Rhode Island...

1Department of Community Health; Brown University; Providence, ri USA; 2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Brown University; Providence, ri USA; 3Department of Neurological Surgery; University of California San Francisco; San Francisco, CA USA; 4Masonic Cancer Center; Division of epidemiology and Community Health; University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN USA; 5Section of Biostatis...

As the Providence Health System is phasing in its Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system at the Providence Portland Medical Center, we conducted a study to demonstrate the effects of CPOE on medication turn-around time. Retrospectively, we tracked and compared medication orders that were placed via the existing paper-based system and the CPOE system. The results of this study coincide ...

A novel experiment is used to show that the effect of a policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it is chosen democratically by the subjects than when it is exogenously imposed. In contrast to the previous literature, our experimental design allows us to control for selection effects (e.g. those who choose the policy may be affected differently by it). Our finding implies that democra...