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Written in a conversational style, Dr. Bishop guides us through a delightful process of decluttering and organizing our home environments--to Assess, Zone, Unload, Rearrange, & Enjoy. Chapters address creating organized rooms and work and storage spaces throughout the home. This comprehensive manual is equally valuable for the numerous checklists for project planning and for documenting important family and household information. Also includes extensive, useful Resources, Appendix, and Bibliography sections.

If reading from beginning-to-end is not your style, start by learning Dr. Bishop's philosophy of AZURE-ing (p.340-41) and move to Chapter 4 to create your own Personal Decompression Chamber. Then, in your personal care retreat, read the remaining chapters that will guide you in the process of organizing your other home environments, and simplifying your life to enjoy it more!

Household Winners for Working Women is the most complete personal organizational tool I have found to declutter my home and my life. Dr. Bishop knows just how I think and gives me step by step instructions to enable me to succeed. As a working mother, I have no time for extra projects and this book gives me plans, charts, lists and examples of how to organize and declutter! Mealtime was always a stressful time for me. Now, with the menus and shopping lists, mealtime is a pleasure for my entire family! My hat is off to Dr. Bishop - excellent work and presentation!

A. Kingsley Bishop has thought of everything! You name it and she can tell you VERY SIMPLY how to organize it. I have always been a very organized person myself, but I am constantly looking for new ideas. This book definitely provided me tons of great new strategies for organizing my home, better yet my entire life! Bishop is brilliant! If you want to save yourself time , money, and a lot of stress then READ THIS BOOK!!!

As a business owner, I pretty much am the "follow the rules and keep the integrity to get success" person. My shelves are lined with Steven Covey and Anthony Robbins materials. Dr. Bishop is fast becoming a part of that setting. As a woman, my need to keep order in my household (my primary concern), begins with excellent organization. Every chapter in this book is dedicated to bringing order to your life. Buy the book, use it faithfully, and see true order begin to take place. What an author!

Bishop gives busy women easy-to-use tools to bring every area of their lives under control. Whether it's your car, your linen closet, your kitchen, your closets, your entry way, your garage -- there are strategies here to master the mess. She also provides a formula for creating your personal decompression chamber. This book is a treasure; get it today!

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Candace Robb has read and researched medieval history for many years, having studied for a Ph.D. in Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Literature. She divides her time between Seattle and the UK, frequently spending time in Scotland and York to research her books.

York is very close to my own home and many of the places mentioned in the Owen Archer books are still there to be seen and of course Archbishop John Thorseby is mentioned in the records of York Minster. All this adds spice for me and helps me to picture the time and events that took place. This is the fourth novel in what is proving to be a captivating series.

Owen Archer, the one-eyed former captain of a company of Welsh archers finds himself working on behalf of the king, to promote Wykeham as the new Bishop of Winchester. Owen places his old comrade Ned in charge of a company travelling to Rievaulx Abbey, north of the city of York. By doing this he hopes to dispel the rumours of Ned's involvement in a mysterious death. But is his plan about to back fire on him as days later, the murders and intrigue begin . . .

Three times previously, Owen Archer has come to the aid--even rescue--of King Edward IV as well as the Archbishop of York and in this fourth adventure, Candace Robb has woven another medieval murder mystery spell that will absorb you until the very end!

In "The King's Bishop," Owen, the former soldier and now one-eyed spy for Archbishop Robert Thoresby of York, finds himself embroiled in one of history's more in- triguing plots. King Edward wants to nominate a favorite as a bishop, from when he could then be in line to be named chancellor of England. But Pope Urban sees it differently, and thus the power struggle begins. This story is one of intricately-patterned designs, based upon historical fact. Author Robb, however, tosses in the fictional interests and we are off and running.

A young page is found dead at Windsor and Ned Townley, one of Archer's friends, is accused of murder. Alas, the king's mistress Alice Perrers provides him with an alibi, but the suspicion, of course, remains. Ned is assigned to accompany the king's delegation heading north of confer with a local Cistercian abbey to enlist their support of his bishop's nomination. This removes Ned from the scene, but not without complications. Shortly after he leaves, his betrothed (and lady in waiting to Mistress Perrers) is found drowned in the Thames. And as Ned and his group near the abbey, a priest is murdered. Ned is in big trouble. In addition, a priest is also found murdered. All three deaths are, of course, inter-connected.

Having a friend like Owen Archer counts for something and during the course of this work, Archer is determined to exonerate his friend, even though much evidence implicates Ned. Archer is married to Lucy Wilton, noted York apothicary, and Robb uses this scenario well to her advantage. Lucy is level-headed, calm, logical--in short, the very counter ego of Archer. It is their relationship that provides much of the human

interest in this series, as well. Robb draws heavily on historical perspective, yet has an eye on what should have been in terms of the place of women in medieval society. There is a lesson here.

The novel moves well and readers who appreciate historical ventures will find this one to their tastes. Robb's works show much research (she provides annotation at the end of the book) and she concentrates more on the personalities of her characters that attempting to condemn or condone what historically was. She also does a good job of capturing the Yorkshire countryside, its manners and atmosphere.

Other good news is that Robb continues her series--there is a fifth Owen Archer! It is easy to compare her to other medieval fiction writers, but she, indeed, has a flair of her own. Her works are well worth what effort it may take!

(Billyjhobbs@tyler.net)

The fourth book in the series does not disappoint. It has an intriguing story line with one of Owen's friends falling and love, and murder ensuing...
My favorite is still no. 2, The Lady Chapel, with Nun's Tale and this one right close behind.
I cannot say enough about how well the author Candace Robb writes these characters. I am not only interested in the plot and mystery of each book, but also the continuation of the lives of Owen, Lucia, Thoresby, Sir Robert, Jasper, Brother Michaelo, Riverwoman, the kids and even Lucie's Aunt.
I am now reading A Gift of Sanctuary, having just finished the Riddle of St. Leonards. These books are delicious reads truly.

I have enjoyed all of her books. If you like historical fiction that is light reading but entertaining this is the book you want.

I started reading Candace Robb's Owen Archer series at the suggestion of one of my patients, beginning with her favorite The Cross Legged Knight. I was immediately entranced. The King's Bishop was my second visit to 14th Century York and the home of Lucie Wilton and Owen Archer. I was not disappointed.

Ms Robb is an historian just shy of her PhD and specializes in Medieval History. She is also a consummate storyteller. Her characters are multidimensional; their actions are plausible; and their setting is believable. As a mystery writer, she excels in complex motives. In the Cross Legged Knight, she was able to pull a Collin Dexter out of the hat by producing two possible endings. In The King's Bishop she is able to recreate the ambiance of court intrigue and the murders that arise when ambition is the ultimate measure of an individual and where everything rests on the success of plot and counter plot.

One of the things that took me a while to get used to was the ending to these tales. Not everything comes out happily ever after. The sleuth is not always able to denounce the villain at the end as one is accustomed to reading in stories of this sort. What the ending is, however, is very realistic. Even in modern times, the guilty are not always punished according to the dictates one would expect of "justice;" even justice itself is designed to support the class structure. It is precisely for this reason that we usually enjoy murder mysteries: the guilty are brought to justice, their crimes are made manifest to society, and they are punished accordingly. In Owen Archer mysteries, the guilty sometimes get away with their miserable acts just as they do in our own times.

The stories are wonderfully detailed with respect to historical accuracy, yet they do not overwhelm the reader. Ms Robb is not a pedant. She seeks to create a venue for the actions of her characters without making the reader feel as though there is a test at the end of the story! Most of the unfamiliar terms are understandable from context, although she does supply a glossary for those of us who like to have more information. She also includes a small bibliography and a short history of the period and the characters. And yes, many of the characters were real people from history. These short texts are generally at the end of the book so one needn't feel obligated to read them, but I've taken to reading them first. I enjoy a little background material before I get into the meat of the work.

Very impressive. I would recommend the book to anyone from advanced junior high to adult readers.

This book is a unique piece of literature from the Great War. What sets this apart from others, like Sassoon or poet Owen, is that it gives a picture of how it was not only at the front, but also at home, and that it includes a woman, Vera, in it who communicated with her 4 closest friends through letters. An excerpt of these letters is, in edited form, available in this book.
The letters, written real-time one could say, in stead of polished as novels are, give an interesting insight on how life was back then, how youth thought, how war affected the people of the generation swept in it, and how human nature somehow manages to conserve its hope for the future. The fact that all 4 of her friends died in these events and that their generation is almost no more, makes the title and this war stand even more apart. Essential reading.

I have been interested in Vera Brittain since her autobiography, Testament of Youth, was featured on Masterpiece Theatre in the 70s. I came across this new book by chance when looking for Testament, which my book group is reading and enjoying this month. This collection of letters not only recaptures Vera, her brother, and three close friends, it adds great dimension to their WWI experience. This is a book I will treasure a long time.

Anyone who is interested in WW1 and the men and women who lived it, should read this account of the war first hand!

This is what the war really meant to people, both in and out of the trenches, for these are the letters written from and to them.

A thought provoking book, that it is true, is even more shocking.

It is about a generation of people that we should never forget.

Ever since 14 July 1988 when I read Chronicle of Youth with absorbed attention and keen feeling I have been fascinated by Vera Brittain. This fine work, without duplicating Chronicle of Youth, sets out the letters written by her and her brother and friends till all her correspondents were killed in the war. This is a poignant work, well worth reading. One stands amazed and impressed by the eagerness of these Englishmen to serve their country, even though they knew the hell that the Western Front was, and though so much was repellant about the condition under which they soldiered.

Anyone who is interested in WW1 and the men and women who lived it, should read this account of the war first hand!

This is what the war really meant to people, both in and out of the trenches, for these are the letters written from and to them.

A thought provoking book, that it is true, is even more shocking.

It is about a generation of people that we should never forget.

When I was a theater major all of the best students used to pitch THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 as an elective production, and finally I figured out why, it's because there are so many great parts to shine in. There's the wisecracking theater pro, very much like the guy Michael O'Shea plays in Barbara Stanwtck's LADY OF BURLESQUE, and there's Eddy McCuen, also a wise guy sort of young comic type like Danny Kaye. Straight boys love to play Eddy McCuen to show that they, too, can be flip and withering like William Powell playing Nick Charles in THE THIN MAN movies, and still invincibly heterosexual. For the girls, there is an even wider range of female parts, from the strange little German maid, --Helsa, Hilda, or Helga (for much of the fun is seeing how close Gernman names are to each other) to the millionaire owner of the Hudson Valley mansion in which our play is laid, and the Martha Raye comic lead, who winds up with the guy, if that isn't giving too much away.

The jokes are laid on thick with a trowel, and none of them are very funny but when there's so many few audiences are able to tell. They'll laugh anyhow. The story takes place in a vast library in the mansion, filled with dusty books and secret passageways (the shelves revolve if you know which button to press), for this is a takeoff on CAT AND THE CANARY type plays, like John Ashbery's verse drama THE PHILOSOPHER which we would often use on the same set. In one semester, our set designer flew the coop to Provincetown, absconding with the funds for building the tall bookcases with the slowly revolving doors cut into them, so we got two freshman, thrilled to be in a play, posed as the doors, their all white overalls painted to look like rows of books, they were kept back to back throughout the entire play, and occasionally at crucial moments they were directed to spin about, shoulderblades constantly touching, silently and ominously, like a door opening into a dark hallway.

It worked!

Better than the play. The problem is that most of your audience will actually be able to guess the killer. And though they'll be in tears of laughter from the rapidfire "humor," they will still wind up feeling a little cheated because John Bishop is no Ira Levin or Peter Schaffer and sometimes, when he reaches for a joke, he just pulls down a groan.

i am a directing major at Stephen F Austin State University and i am directing a rendition of this show for a summer community theatre. it is very funny, a little risque, and lots of fun

THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 is not the typical who-dunnit murder mystery. Sure the show starts off with someone getting killed in the first scene by an unknown murderer. However, as the guests arrive and the snow falls, the audience soon learns this isn't your average "party". No, this is supposedly an audition for a "backer", an "angel", a patron of the arts for a new show and the people involved include the director, producer, a few actors, a dancer, and a comedian. The mystery keeps you guessing for awhile who the real killer is, but there are several twists and lots of theatre jokes. With all that and a sidekick who turns out to be a hero, THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 is a show not to be missed.

I had the oportunity to be in the Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 as Roger Hopewell for my high school's fall production. It is just hysterical! This light-hearted comedy takes place in Chappaqua, New York where a group of people get together to work on a new Broadway musical. As the actors, composer, director, producer, lyricist, hostess, and police collect clues more and more laughs come your way. This play is definitely worth reading as well as seeing.

With a murder in the first two pages and many more to come, one would expect the MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS of 1940 by John Bishop's play to be a typical murder-mystery. But, Bishop has chosen place his murderer deep within the world of actors, directors and theatre producers. Which can only mean one thing...unstoppable egos and unrelenting laughs...and a mystery that's not half-bad, either!

I just love the Images of America series. I have spent pretty much my whole life in the Groton, CT area, and have all the books about Groton and the surrounding towns. So, I was just THRILLED when I saw a historic 'Images..' book about the Groton/New London Naval Submarine Base. This base has been at the center of my entire life. My father served on subs for 20 years, my step-father for 22 years, and my husband is currently a Lieutenant Commander stationed in Groton on subs as well.

My dad managed to spend 18 of his 20 years in Groton, so the subase became a second home to me...it's so cool to see photos of the base in it's early days, and to actually see the growth and expansion of the base through pictures. I learned so much about the whole facility, and now look at certain buildings and areas with a whole new outlook. I know what used to be in places, and things that were torn down so newer buildings could be erected. If you have any ties to this base, I DEFINITELY recommend this book. Even if your not overly interested in the history, the photos alone are worth buying the book for. Very, very interesting.

Arcadia's Images of America series of books are beautiful collections of photographs centered around a single subject. Here they've given this treatment to the home of American submarines, the base at New London, CT. As is usual in these books, they start with the first pictures available (which probably came from before it was a base at all), through the initial uses of the base, i.e. a coaling station for the Navy, and the first submarines.

The first was the USS Moccasin (SS-5), built in 1903 and in New London shortly after that. In 1916 it became the Submarine Base, it had a flotilla of subs being used in World War I. Gradually it grew to include the school that by World War II was producing the crews to take the war to the Japanese.

As usual, I find it difficult to see where they could have found all the photographs reproduced in this book. The normal layout is two pictures per page, so there are probably a couple of hundred pictures in this little book. It's a fascinating book.

Born in New London 76 years ago while Daddy was attending Submarine School, returning in 1937 while my father was in charge of the landmark submarine escape training tower standing 100++ feet tall on the base waterfront and then taking command of a locally built and one of the first WWII famed fleet subs, and then returning a third time to attend "Sub School" myself, I feel kind of close to "The Base!" And immensely relieved that it was spared the ignominy of being shut down recently by a somewhat ignorant decision of the Dept of Defense. This book, rushed to completion to help influence the reviewing committee, is excellent, a superb photographic compendium of the cradle of the superb US Submarine Force. The contribution of this Force and this Base to victory in first the Pacific WWII and then the Cold War is immeasurable. Author David Bishop, intimately familiar by both profession and interest in Sub Base, New London, has compiled a photographic essay that is to be treasured by all proud wearers of the twin dolphins (the submariner's qualification insignia) as well as the vast number to whom submarines and submariners are fascinating subjects. Well done!

Bishop beautifully captured the history of the New London Subase in such a way that I felt as through I'd just browsed through photographs stored in my grandfather's old military footlocker! I enjoyed reading the factual and interesting captions under the chronologically arranged photos. It was refreshing to read a historic depiction (of the subase) that maintained a personal and intimate look into the faces and places that shaped the "submarine capitol of the world".

I am a submarine fan and live near the Naval Submarine Base New London, in Groton, CT. The base has a long 137 year history, the first submarines having come from our area of Connecticut. It is home to many of our U. S. submarines, the Submarine Force Museum and the Naval Submarine School. Often as I drive by the base, I wonder what it looks like inside. So when a recent newspaper article mentioned this book. I decided to get a copy. This is the first book I have seen with so many old photos of the base and old submarines. I enjoyed it and the look back in time it provided. I was amazed to see how the base came into being and its evolution from a rural site in 1868 to the home of the sub base and school it is today.

Photos of the old submarines as well as the old wooden buildings that were there years ago are fascinating. There are maps included that show the base in 1868, 1915, 1919, 1944 and 1988. These maps really help place the old and new buildings and show how the base expanded. This book is a true history lesson. It would interest anyone who was ever stationed at the base, submarine aficionados, World War II history buffs, and folks like me, who just wondered about the base.

Here we have possibly the earliest "Bible Overview", that is to say, an outline of the message of the Bible from beginning to end. Irenaeus is famous for his polemic "Against the Heretics" but this lost work was found in the early 20th century and seems to be entirely unpolemical: a plain exposition of the gospel for the encouragement of a Christian.

It is, therefore, a delight and joy to read and will profit both the most recent convert and the most widely-read elder. There are lots of very good modern "Bible Overviews" out there, but I enjoyed this more than anything else I've seen so far in that genre.

As a work of Biblical Theology--the study of how the Bible hanges together as a connected narrative--this again is way better than much that is out there. Irenaeus traces the gospel from the existence of God, to the state of man before the fall, through the result of the fall and the promises, shadows and types of the Old Testamente to the fulfillment of the promises and the redemption that we have in Christ Jesus.

Here you will find the now famous idea of "Recapitulation", where Irenaeus shows how Christ came to re-live the life of Adam but to do it flawlessly, so that while we were helplessly joined to Adam in slavery to sin and death, now we can be joined to Christ. Christ, having joined himself to mankind, is able to redeem our sinful and mortal bodies, so that his resurrection from the dead means that we will rise.

A striking feature of this work is that it takes its starting point in the Old Testament and only appeals to the New to show how the promises and narrative of the Old find their fulfillment. It's thus both an example of handling God's word well, of recognising the authority of the whole of Scripture, and also much more satisfying to read than a work which starts with the New and keeps flashing back to the Old.

A profound summary of the Christian faith from one of the church's earliest teachers. In this work are conveyed the idea in scripture of the two seeds - one of promise and one of curse. The parallel of Mary to Eve and the virgin soil giving birth to Adam as the virgin Mary gave birth to the second Adam, Jesus. Profound theological themes that would come up again and again in the teaching of the church are summarized here giving us the sense of an ancient tradition going back to the preaching of the Apostles.

This is a wonderful primer for anyone wanting a sweeping overview of scripture and the Church that confirms it in her sacred tradition. What better way to discover the teachings of the Apostles than from a teacher with a theological pedigree including perhaps the most profound of the Apostolic teachers - John to Polycarp and Polycarp to Ireneus.

This is also a solid historical snapshot of the ante-Nicene church and a summary of what they really taught. In this earliest of works we find the deity of Jesus and a rudimentary understanding of the trinity that cannot be glossed over as some late developments in church teaching.

For the profound insights alone this is a beneficial work for Christians of all persuasions. For the historical significance it is essential to those interested in early church history. An insightful, inspiring, necessary work to have.

The introductory material is about half the book and includes a history of the various source texts and translations. That material is also well written and helpful in placing Ireneus's work in proper context.

Assuming that this is a true representation of an actual writing, it is invaluable for all Christians in showing us what the manner of preaching was at the very beginning. Of this fact, I really have no doubt, and accept this writing as that of Irenaeus himself. Irenaeus was taught by Polycarp, who was a disciple of the Apostle John, so we have here a teaching of the preaching told by a second generation source.

"On the Apostolic Preaching" is a recently discovered work of Irenaeus, a second century theologian. Irenaeus is better known for his attacks on Gnosticism but he still has time to write a summery of the Christian faith for his friend Marcianus.

In his book, Irenaeus presents the faith chronologically, from the creation of the world to the death of Christ. He masterfully interprets the Old Testament to show that Christ is the focus and the culmination of the Old Testament. When he does this, he is also attempting to refute a common Gnostic belief that the old bloodthirsty God of the Old Testament was a completely different creature from new gentle God of the New Testament.

He continues and finds support in the Old Testament for nearly every aspect of Christ and for the actions of the Apostles. This book also contains one of the earliest explanations of the Trinity which is interesting to see how it compares to modern understanding on the subject.

This book is a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a second century theologian and an interesting read.

This is a work by Irenaeus that wasn't discovered until fairly recently, so it is not included in the excellent 10 volume Ante-Nicene Fathers set. The work is essentially a summary of the Christian faith by the Bishop Irenaeus (lived around 177 AD). The work 'recounts all the various deeds of God culminated in Jesus Christ.' It, unlike the works of Justin and Athenagoras from the same period, is non-polemical and non-apologetic. There are quite a few notes, a nice introduction, and some Greek words provided in the text when the English translation provided is uncertain.

So goes the famous ad lib from Robin Williams.
Silver Boomers is full of pieces about our "sixties salad days".I'm known for writing funny poems and picture books. (Such as Texas Aesop's Fables.)
Silver Boomers gave me a chance to publish something a little different. I used to write more stories like "Electric Lunch at Granny Bow's", and these nice folks allowed me space to do it again. That may be good or bad, according to your point of view, but the wonderful poems of Sheryl Nelms, alone,are enough to make me want a copy.

Every reader will connect with these stories. I laughed out loud, got misty-eyed with memories, and was brought face-to-face with the fact that life still has much more on my agenda. Thanks Silver Boomers!

Starting off with a capturing cover,simple/abstract picture within a picture of more than a thousand words, those words within the pages of Silver Boomers.

The mixture of story/poem/story kept the pages turning, but not turned before enjoying the marquee ticker tape running along the bottom of each page through the entire book.

Memories reminded and were made throughout this masterfully edited anthology. Kudos to all involved.

I purchased this as a gift for my mother but decided to peruse it first. I found it to be a wonderfully reflective look at the past, present, and future...
Of course I was drawn in immediately (Its kind of like giving a box of chocolates but on the way tasting a few to make sure they are ok - however, not arriving with an empty box!) and found myself not in the company of my mother's peers but in the close comfort of a creative group of writers that understand and explore life and the impacts of society.
The wonderful part of reading a collection of different writers is the broad range of emotions and intellectual thoughta that are evoked as each page turns.
Yes - I know my mother will like this too as there is a flavor for everyone!

I read this book, though it reads fast, you want to go back and re-read everything in it. I have officially read through it four times since I got it because you can find a new little tidbit each time that you missed the times before. It is a gem of a read, with flashback like memoirs and shorts, and beautifully timed poems. I get the feeling of a Chicken Soup book, but this is much better because nothing seems to drag on, you can tell each piece was carefully selected, not just thrown in to fill pages. This book is not JUST for baby boomers, but for anyone with a baby boomer in their life, or anyone who enjoys that era. I hope to see more from these authors soon! I will recommending this to alot of my family and friends.

Having written my senior thesis on St. Augustine's concept of the Trinity, I found Fr. Hill's edition to be a great resource in my research of the subject. His introduction to the treatise is a must-read, providing a solid overview of Trinitarian history, reviewing some of the early heresies and disputes, and introducing us to Augustine's predecessors. This introduction is invaluable for any who wish to understand De Trinitate in the context with which it was written, as it offers a defense against criticisms placed upon it by later theologians.

St Augustine was, before Aquinas, the most subtle and brilliant intellect in the Western Church. While Augustine's influence has sometimes been debated and even criticised, most recognise that he was both an outstanding theologian and a highly original philosopher.

The Trinity is one of the works of the later period of Augustine's life, after he had been consecrated as Bishop of Hippo. During this period Augustine spent most of his time and energy on pastoral and theological issues, including deep theological reflection on the scriptures and theology.

The Trinity is Augustine's attempt to plumb the mystery of God, as revealed to Christians as the triune God of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It contains some fifteen or so books in which Augustine attempts to develop a systematic theology of the Triune God based around scripture, as well as outlining a theological anthropology which discusses how the image of God exists in human beings, and how the economy of salvation is effected through Christ's atoning sacrifice on the cross and through the free acceptance of God's gift of salvation by the process of baptism and incorporation into the body of Christ, the Church.

Augustine's text contains many profound and interesting theological insights which in themselves would become articles of dogma. Unfortunately, this tends to misrepresent Augustine, who was a very curious and inquiring thinker, who desired to understand God as much as was humanly possible.

This book will be of most interest to theologians, but it will also interest philosophers and students of comparative religion, as well as those interested in Christian spirituality.

There is much discussion in contemporary theology about the Trinity (e.g. Moltmann, LaCugna, Gunton, Pannenberg, Rahner, Barth). In order to appreciate the discussion intelligently, you ought to go back to the source of the Western model of the Trinity. One of Augustine's analogies for the Trinity is the Father the Lover, the Son the Beloved, and the Spirit as the Love. Quite a few theologians are critical of Augustine's emphasis on the unity of the Triune God (e.g. Moltmann, Pannenberg, LaCugna). It is worth reading this work just to put their work in perspective.

This work is more than just an exposition of theology. Augustine has a long discussion of perception (memory, understanding and will), because he needs to give an account for how human seeing can fulfill its supernatural vocation to see God. Some of his discussion anticipates some of the concerns of the Enlightenment. E.g. if the representation I recall in my mind is from my memory, but is also shaped by my will, how do I know I have an accurate representation of reality?

Another reason to get this work is that any attempt to tackle the Trinity ends up by a mini-systematics. In a fairly short space, a close read of the work will pay a mountain of dividends.

In particular, Edmund Hill did an invaluable job editing and translating the work. The introductory notes, the endnotes, and the essays scattered throughout the work are worth the price of the book itself. I have gotten a lot more out of the work because of Hill's commentary (and they are not overly intrusive). Some of Hill's translations are a little bit too colloquial for my taste, but he wanted to write a dynamic translation. If you want a literal translation of this work, you can like in other places.

All in all, this is one of the all-time classics in Christian theology.

Trinitarian theology is a difficult subject. Scriptural references are few and their meaning is not obvious - indeed, they can easily be read as contradictory. In fact, there is no explicit description of the Trinity in the scriptures at all - the orthodox view of the Trinity (three persons in one God) is an inferential conclusion from scripture that took generations to piece together. Having arrived at that conclusion, the next problem was to understand exactly what it meant - a problem difficult enough that many argued that it was simply a mystery the answer to which we might know in the next life but not this.

This famously difficult problem is the subject of Augustine's "The Trinity". In addressing it, he has two motives. His first motive is to combat non-Trinitarian heresy by showing the scriptural support for the concept and by showing that it is not inherently contradictory. His second motive is to attempt to understand the Trinity more deeply, to satisfy the scriptural directive to "seek His face evermore".

"The Trinity" is a long book, the second longest work in the Augustinian corpus, and one that he worked on, intermittently, for sixteen years. He might not have finished it had not the unauthorized publication of the first twelve "books", led him to write the final three in order to avoid having the work available only in an incomplete form.

"The Trinity" begins with a consideration of the Scriptural references to the Trinity, with the aim of reconciling them and explaining them through the supposition of three equal persons in one God. Augustine is at particular pains to maintain the equality of the persons: that the Son is equal to the Father, and the Holy Spirit equal to both. Of particular concern to Augustine are the references to the Son and Holy Spirit being sent, with the implication that the Father who sends must be superior to them. This presentation takes up the first eight books.

From there Augustine aims to develop some deeper understanding of the nature of the Trinity. His approach is to use the fact that the Man was created in the image of God. Given this, Augustine reasons, there should be some image of the Trinity in man. This leads to the consideration of a succession of trinities - the lover, beloved, and love; memory, understanding, and will; the objects of sense, the will to attend to them, and the sense impressions of them; etc. This presentation, which take up the next four books, is interesting, but often perplexing. It is easy for the reader to see that the trinities he names are not analogues of the divine Trinity, and it can be perplexing to attempt to understand how Augustine intends to bring this discussion of the trinities in man together.

It is in the last few books, written after the premature publication of the earlier books, that Augustine works to reverse the centrifugal tendencies of his discussion of the trinities in man and unify them into a whole. The trinities in man are held up not as exact analogues to that in God, but as a ladder, starting with the most carnal and rising towards the most spiritual; we do not find a single Trinity like that of God within ourselves, but we do find a series of them that we can ascend, and in ascending it we approach the divine Trinity and a deeper understanding of God.

St. Augustine's position as a Doctor of the Church is understandable, even after only reading parts of this terrific book! He really comes at a discussion of the Trinity in a logical fashion that appeals to hearts and experiences, not just minds!

I'd definitely recommend it to anyone of a particularly cerebral bent looking to learn more about their faith from a Doctor of the Church! This isn't light bedside reading, and it won't seem as simple as, say, the wisdom shared by Therese of Lisieux. But for those looking to read and learn about the Trinity, this book offers a deep and rich look at a mystery of the faith that many of us today take for granted, from a time when many people didn't take it for granted!

This is a wonderful book for children who love history, or if you want an educational as well as thrilling novel to read.

In this book, ten-year-old Andrea "Andy" is at her grandfather's house in the small, country town of Moose Jaw to be a junior bridesmaid in her cousin's wedding. But, her grandfather and crazy Aunt Bea want to show her something, recently strange underground tunnels have been discovered dug under to the town of Moose Jaw connecting the houses and business.
As Andy's grandfather is showing her a tunnel, she accidently slips and knocks herself out. When she awakes, she is being drug down the tunnel by a strange boy. Andy figures out that she has traveled through time back to the 1920's.
Andy then must use her skills to help a boy named Vance and his sister Beanie outsmart a bunch of gangsters, even Al Capone who are currently using the tunnels to transport illegal alcohol.

Will Andy outsmart the gangsters and help Vance and Beanie? What is the secret that Andy's grandfather and Aunt Beanie hiding from her? And what will happen to them?

This is quite an adventures read. Older readers are sure to figure out the plot and secret of this book by the first few chapters.

~~~Kat

I read this book for a book review in my class, I read more than half the book in one night! I started out reading a couple of pages then a couple more then I couldn't put it down. Mary Harlekin Bishop made me feel like was down in the tunnels with Andrea. This book was so well written that I could picture everything in my head, even the terrible Scarface. This is by far the best book I have ever read. I strongly recommend Tunnels of Time to anyone who likes a good adventure/mystery story. And by the way, I just bought the second book Tunnels of Terror, so far it is very interesting.

This book is one of the best books I have ever read in my whole entire life. This story starts off on a car ride to Moose Jaw and instantly becomes a non-stop ride into your imagination. I loved this book, the author explained every little detail to its fullest. You can't help but get yourself pulled into the mystery of the tunnels as you read and re-read this amazing novel!!! If you ever need an excuse to start reading about Andreas thrilling trip into the past use this one because I can guarintee you that, along with not being dissapointed, you will absolutly "LOVE" this book and want to read it over and over again...

This book is very well written, except for a lengthy ending which also turns out awesome, and the length is acceptable. Reading the story I also travel back in time, that is how well written it is. Being from Moose Jaw it is extra special to me, but anyone who has heard of Big Al will find it amazing. You can almost experience what the characters in the book are experiencing, which is both good and bad. The positives far out weigh the negatives and it would be a shame to pass up the opportunity of reading this book, even if you have to borrow it from a friend. Under 300 pages it doesn't take forever to read it either. It took me a week, but if I wasn't in school at the same time I could have read it all on a Saturday-Sunday combo, although it can be more suspenseful by reading it over a longer period of time. You leave the experience feeling a debt to the author, and the reasonable price for this book when purchasing it turns into the author giving you much more then you payed. Treat yourself to this book.

I read this book for the first time in spring of 2000, I was enthralled. I have probably read this book fifty or so times since then and I continue to be fascinated with it each time. The story brings a rather strong moral with its mystery and adventure. The young girl who finds herself lost in the past realises how important families really are. This book is filled with adventure and danger, but it does not cross the boundaries of these qualities. The other thing that I enjoyed about this book was... the setting. In small town Moose Jaw who would have thought all these wild things reallly happened! The plot sparks your imagination and I could truly relate to the charactors. All the makings of a good book. It demontrated the true power of words, in a meaningful way. I was always a big reader, but after I read this book I think it inspired me even more. I certainly recommend this book , it is an amazing novel.

I loved this book, I happened to just pick it up on a Wal-Mart table where all the books were marked down. I thought it was going to be a boring book at first because most books put me to sleep, but I LOVED this book. It was a great story. It was almost like watching a movie. I recommed this book to everyone, my roommate is now about to start reading it. I never wanted it to end. I am now currently reading her other book "Some Old Lovers Ghost" let you know how that one goes... :)

I have been searching for a long while to find someone who can tell such a saga, as Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher -- and I have now found this author in Judith Lennox! What a fabulous story! Thoroughly enjoyed this novel, from start to finish! Highly recommend! :-)

"Written on Glass" is the second book that I read from Judith Lennox and I loved it! Ms. Lennox is able to write books that draw the reader in and able to hold their attention. She is also able to give her characters real emotions that make the reader continue on, to see how the story ends. A great book!

Judith Lennox provides an realistic insight into the time after the World War II . Two affluent families live in the South of England near London. The Temperleys with their adored daughter Julia and their sensible son Marius live in Missencourt, a great house that always was the place of security and decency. Their well known friends the Chancellors also have two children, the older and stronger son Jack and the younger son Will who was discharged. The story starts when Jack comes back home in 1946, he is physically and mentally unharmed, but has great fear that his one love Julia might not love him anymore. Insecurity fills the friends when they discover that they all became older and the sibling rivalry for Juila's love starts again between Jack and Will . The 4 years Jack fighted for England were passed and Julia had become a responsible and successful woman, she substituted her father who died while Marius fighted in Italy ,in the big firm. In one day of blindfold action Julia marries Will, though she still loves Jack. Marius tried to find his first love he had to leave when he disconnected into World War II. And still there is the young Topaz, the cousin of Jack and Will who lives with her uncaring mother in London. After the war this is the first time she spends her summer at the Chancellors with her old friends . In such a way the book is about the years 1946 till 1953 . Marriages were formed, children were born, the lovers and heartbreakers came and went away again, mysteries became public, surprises and secrets in love and friendship convulsed the friends. The book is written in the view of all of the friends and a great atmosphere is built. A sweeping family saga in the hard time after the World War II.

I bought this book at Heathrow while waiting for my flight home to San Francisco. I was hooked from the first page, and the discomforts of 10 hours in coach class just melted away. It is a charming book with well-drawn characters and plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader's attention. I could not help but compare the writing style and content to Maeve Binchy. There is great similarity in writing style between the two authors and fans of Ms. Binchy will not be disappointed at discovering Judith Lennox.

I recommend this book with enthusiasm to anyone who is looking for a vacation read. It wont win the Nobel Prize for Literature but it's extremely enjoyable, nevertheless.