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Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity
By exploring gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity, this book contributes to discussions about how gender, identity formation, and materiality shaped episcopal office and theology in late antiquity.
Unity in Christ
What does episcopal fraternity and communio look like? This central question is explored through the erudition and experience of Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia. Unity in Christ, based upon a series of addresses given to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at their Special Assembly in 2022, delves into the themes associated with episcopal unity. By surveying the Christian tradition, beginning with the scriptures and then through various periods (Apostolic generation, patristic, scholastic, Vatican II, recent post Vatican II developments such as synodality) a coherent picture of episcopal togetherness is presented. What becomes clear is...
The Intrusion
In a town full of secrets the truth must be uncovered before it's buried forever. When a police detective is found murdered in the town of Wakestead, all clues point to local woman Amma Reynolds. Amma has a clear motive. She hates the police for failing to properly investigate her brother's death, which was written off as an accidental drowning. Amma has always believed her brother was murdered. Could she have killed DI Mark Stormont in revenge? Former detective and private investigator Erin Crane is hired to find out. As she digs deeper, Erin realises that first she needs to uncover why Amma's brother turned up dead in a river all those years ago. Even if it means tearing her friendship with DI Lewis Jennings apart. Because there are some secrets the Wakestead police force would rather stay buried... Praise for previous novel The Blame; 'Searingly topical' The Telegraph on The Blame 'Shocking' Heat on The Blame
The Arctic Connections
Aleksandras Girnius had a dream of a new life in a new land. A Russianspeaking Lithuanian, he hopes to build a new life serving in the Canadian Army in World War II. Now known as Alex Greenus, he is trained in tank warfare. Alex is posted to Murmansk in the Arctic Circle, where he and his colleagues train Russians to handle the tanks shipped on the notorious Murmansk Run. Alex struggles to find his way in this new world, but when he meets Alisa Volgymko, a Russian officer who is assigned to the same training unit, he finds comfort in her arms and her bed. He calls her his Arctic Connection, but when the training mission ends, they part. Years later, he learns that Alisa left with more than j...
RAINBOW MEN
Seven military men find themselves odd men out as the nineteenth century moves into the twentieth century. The United States cavalry is almost a thing of the past. After a fleeting dalliance with glory in Cuba, the men are dispatched to southwest Texas to serve under a pompous, self serving martinet. Trouble inevitably ensues and the men are eventually asked to leave the military. With no clear plan for the immediate future, the seven find action and adventure in Mexico before settling in the bayous of southwest Mississippi. There, still more fierce battles are waged spurred on by the clash of cultural and social disparit.
