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This Festschrift draws on the research interests of Christopher
Rowland. The collection of essays comes from former doctoral
students and other friends, many of whom shed light on the angelic
contribution to the thought-world of developing Christianity. The
significance of the Jewish contribution to developing Christian
ideology is critically assessed, including the impact of the
original Jewish sources on the earliest Christian belief. The
distinguished contributors to this volume include April DeConick,
Paul Foster, John Rogerson, Tobias Nicklas and Andrei Orlov.
1899, Glasgow. A man is stabbed to death in a tenement courtyard
and Juan Camaron, photographer-cum-sleuth, is enlisted to assist
the police investigation. Perhaps his innovative photographic
method can bring to light what the naked eye might overlook. Juan
is also contending with his own problems. His late father's legacy,
a monumental photographic record of Cuban architecture, faces a
charge of plagiarism from a mysterious senora. And Jane, his
fiancee, is witnessed fleeing the scene of a murder. Juan's
hoped-for happiness is threatened and he is torn between finding
the killer and finding Jane. But could they be one and the same?
This Festschrift draws on the research interests of Christopher
Rowland. The collection of essays comes from former doctoral
students and other friends, many of whom shed light on the angelic
contribution to the thought-world of developing Christianity. The
significance of the Jewish contribution to developing Christian
ideology is critically assessed, including the impact of the
original Jewish sources on the earliest Christian belief. The
distinguished contributors to this volume include April DeConick,
Paul Foster, John Rogerson, Tobias Nicklas and Andrei Orlov.
Juan CamarĂ³n and his father travel across Cuba in the summer of
1898, photographing the island and its people as the war between
Spain and the United States escalates. But tragedy strikes when
Juan's father is killed, and his last photos reveal a sinister
truth to his final moments: he was not a random victim - he was
murdered. Travelling to Scotland, where he has inherited property,
Juan immerses himself in the study of photography. When he pioneers
a new device that inadvertently solves a crime, he is brought to
the attention of local law enforcement, prompting a fateful
invitation to help police hunt down a brutal serial killer plaguing
the streets of Glasgow.
The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of
fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to
follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of
Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to
live among drug king pins and petty thieves. She has led many of
them through profound spiritual transformations in which they
turned away from their lives of crime, and has deeply touched the
lives of all who have witnessed the depth of her compassion.
Donning a nun's habit, she became Mother Antonia, renowned as "the
prison angel," and has now organized a new community of sisters-the
Servants of the Eleventh Hour--widows and divorced women seeking
new meaning in their lives. "We had never heard a story like hers,"
Jordan and Sullivan write, "a story of such powerful goodness."
Born in Beverly Hills, Clarke was raised around the glamour of
Hollywood and looked like a star herself, a beautiful blonde
reminiscent of Grace Kelly. The choreographer Busby Berkeley
spotted her at a restaurant and offered her a job, but Mary's dream
was to be a happy wife and mother. She raised seven children, but
her two unfulfilling marriages ended in divorce. Then in the late
1960s, in midlife, she began devoting herself to charity work,
realizing she had an extraordinary talent for drumming up donations
for the sick and poor.
On one charity mission across the Mexican border to the
drug-trafficking capitol of Tijuana, she visited La Mesa prison and
experienced an intense feeling that she had found her true life's
work. As she recalls, "I felt like I had come home." Receiving the
blessings of the Catholic Church for her mission, on March 19,
1977, at the age of fifty, she moved into a cell in La Mesa,
sleeping on a bunk with female prisoners above and below her.
Nearly twenty-eight years later she is still living in that cell,
and the remarkable power of her spiritual counseling to the
prisoners has become legendary.
The story of both one woman's profound journey of discovery and
growth and of the deep spiritual awakenings she has called forth in
so many lost souls, The Prison Angel is an astonishing testament to
the powers of personal transformation.
1898, Glasgow. A man is found stabbed to death in a tenement block
and the police are struggling to grasp any leads. Juan Cameron,
photographer-cum-sleuth, is drafted in with his trusted camera in
the hope he can bring to light what the eye may overlook. Yet Juan
has problems of his own. Following the tragic death of his father
in Cuba some months before, the man's legacy is threatened by a
plagiarism suit from a mysterious senora, and Juan's hoped-for
happiness with his fiancee, Jane, might be over before it's even
begun - even more so when a visiting professor is murdered and Jane
is witnessed fleeing the scene. Juan finds himself torn between
finding the killer and finding his fiancee - but are they one and
the same? The truth is in the frames.
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