Over the last three decades there has been a great outpouring of writings from both Catholic and Protestant theologians on the doctrine of the Trinity, almost all of which, ironically, have lamented the neglect of the doctrine. Again and again one reads that although the Trinity is central and crucially important to Christianity and Christian theology, it has not been given adequate treatment. It is unacceptable, theologians protest, that the Trinity has come to be regarded as an obscure and complex theological technicality, a piece of celestial mathematics impossible to understand and with little relevance to the life of the ordinary Christian. Karl Rahner remarked that modern Christians were ‘almost mere “monotheists’” paying lip service to the Trinity but in practice ignoring it. If it were announced that the dogma had been a mistake and was to be erased from official Christianity, nobody, he thought, would be too bothered, neither the ordinary believing Christians nor the authors of theological textbooks.’ Rahner’s diagnosis has been widely accepted and widely regretted. The consensus is that the Trinity is at the heart of Christianity, and both theology and piety have gone astray if it is regarded as belonging to the specialists. A retrieval (it is believed) is needed: the Trinity must be understood once again (one reads) as a positive and central element in the Christian faith rather than an embarrassing obscurity, and as profoundly relevant to the life of individual Christians, to the life of the Church, and perhaps beyond.
Two monoclonal antibodies that react with all the slow skeletal myosin heavy chains in the mammalian skeletal muscles appeared to react with only SM1 myosin heavy chain in the post-hatch muscles of chicken. Further studies on the developing chicken showed one of these two antibodies to react with an additional myosin heavy chain in the early embryonic skeletal muscle as well as with the cardiac muscle. It is concluded that this antibody identified a slow muscle-like embryonic isoform of myosin heavy chain during earlier stages of development. While this embryonic isoform was more abundant during early development, the synthesis of SM1 myosin heavy chain was restricted to only presumptive slow muscle cells.
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