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The Christus Victor theology fell out of favor, not because of intrinsic inadequacies, but because it was subversive to the church’s role as state religion.
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
During the periods when an individual does not breathe, the lack of oxygen causes a loss of energy (ATP) in the cells that, in turn, stimulates production of uric acid. As a consequence, some patients with sleep apnea may present with gout as their earliest symptom before they realize there is a sleep disturbance present.
The Fat Switch
Richard J. Johnson
The great ancient male institutions have been increasingly infiltrated by women for the last two centuries, and this is a very great change. But when women manage to join the institutions that excluded them, they mostly end up being co-opted by them, serving male ends, enforcing male values.
No Time to Spare
Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction)
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