Maximus the Confessor's combustive historical era, committed doctrinal reflection, and loud and influential voice took him on a turbulent career of traveling and writing around the Mediterranean. Maximus was a spiritual teacher, an ascetic and a contemplative, but he was also a polemicist, a crafter of dogma, an embattled Christologian, a premeditating rhetorician. In this study, Luke Steven binds together these two disparate sides of the man and his writings by showing that throughout his oeuvre the Confessor positions imitation as the key to knowledge. This lasting epistemology characterizes his earlier ascetic and spiritual works, and in his later works it prominently defines his dogmatic Christological method - that is, the means by which he communicates and persuades and brings people to understand and encounter Jesus Christ, the one with two natures, divine and human. This multifaceted study offers a deep assessment of Maximus's forebears, new insight on the animating assumptions of his thought, and an unprecedented focus on the rhetoric and method of his christological writings.

It was a balmy day near Latfurt West Germany in the Spring of 1979. Young electro-static researchers Lucas Fuller, Mark Kessler, Kyle Hamon and Jake Welder are having the time of their lives working with the great particle accelerator, Big Momma, that has been put at their disposal by the US and West German governments. But little do they know that they are about to embark on an epoch odyssey that will change their lives forever. The famous West German scientist Doctor Victor von Schmelt soon arrives to examine their work, in order to make his report to those higher-ups in authority who have given the young scientists the privilege of using the great static generator for their cellular studies. But what is it about the man that unnerves them so? By the hand of a saboteur-and a strange twist of fate-Lucas Fuller is sent on an unanticipated journey. He soon realizes that there are unexpected side effects to the research he and his friends have been engaged in, and he suddenly finds himself in a most forbidding and unholy never-land. Trapped in Nazi Germany in the Fall of 1943, Fuller realizes that he is in the most precarious of predicaments. It seems to him that he is forever lost to his own time as he sets about planning his escape to the Allied lines. But then he finds out that he and his friends were not the only ones engaged in research. What are the Nazis doing to the children they claim to be treating? And why are they doing it? Lucas' plans are quickly changed when he meets the lovely, gypsy Anna. She and her grandmother have been captured by the Nazis; and as true members of the Third Reich, the Nazi hatred of these simple, nomadic people is almost as great as their hatred forthe Jews. Mark Kessler, Kyle Hamon and Jake Welder put their heads together to try and determine what really happened to their friend Lucas. Could what they theorize happened to him really have happened? Is there any way to get him back? Perhaps there is, if they're willing to risk their own lives. All is brought to light as the race against time begins. For now, time is both their enemy and their friend. It is their attempt, their chance, their hope to somehow undo the catastrophic series of events that have come to pass as a result of. The Pendulum Project.

The saga continues. Five years have passed since Holmes's and Watson's adventure with the Ghost of the Flying Dutchman. But now the struggle between good and evil comes to a head as a most unexpected demon from the past forces them into the Search for Excalibur. The legendary sword of King Arthur has been missing since the affair of the Dutchman, and now the daring duo must find it. For, if they fail, it will mean certain death for the lady McBride. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is in the midst of their tour of England. And through a strange twist of fate, Annie Oakley, Frank Butler and Buffalo Bill Cody himself are swept up into the case to become Holmes's and Watson's most unlikely allies. The lovely Emily Cantaville-now Mrs. Watson-is back at Watson's side. And she, too, is drawn into the matter to help save her friend Mary McBride. The strange and somewhat mysterious Tyler Such, (the half-brother of their old nemesis James Moriarty) appears. And they have no choice but to include him in this most unusual and singular of quests. What are the mysterious monsters that stalk Hyde Park? Could there really be a werewolf of London? could the quest for the Excalibur come to shake the very foundations of time itself? Is this Holmes's and Watson's last case together? All will be revealed in, Sherlock Holmes and The Search for Excalibur. It's Holmes and Watson at their best-during the worst-as you have never known them before

Holmes and Watson are at it again. They now face the second great challenge in Fullenkamp's Holmes Trilogy. Ancient ghost and legends return to haunt them at every turn. A must read--mystery, adventure and romance!

The great UK city of London is threatened, along with the life of Queen Victoria. The Master of the Three Dragons must be stopped, but can it be done in time, and who will survive? It's Watson and Holmes as they've never been seen before.