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30 kirjaa tekijältä Peter Prange
Now in paperback, The Philosopher’s Kiss tells the passionate love story between Sophie, a girl from the French countryside, and Denis Diderot, the famed philosopher behind the creation of the first encyclopedia.Internationally bestselling author Peter Prange makes his US debut with a luminous historical novel. Truth. Betrayal. Revolution. Love. ENLIGHTENMENT. PARIS, 1747. Betrayed by God and humanity, eighteen-year-old Sophie moves to the seething French capital and finds work as a serving girl at Café Procope. Here, against her will, she falls deeply in love with Denis Diderot, the famed philosopher and a married man. He and his colleagues are planning the most dangerous book in the world since the Bible: an encyclopedia. Even more scandalous are references concealed within that threaten to undermine both the monarchy and the church. But Sophie soon realizes that even her own rights to freedom, love, and happiness are at risk. Prange powerfully recreates a fascinating era in this spirited story of passion, censorship, self-expression, and rebellion.
C.F.W. Walther took center stage in the history of the doctrine and practice of church fellowship among those Lutherans who organized the Missouri Synod in 1847 and later became the largest segment of the Synodical Con-ference in 1872. Between the years of 1838, when he and his fellow Saxon immigrants left Germany under the corrupt leadership of Pastor Martin Stephan, and 1882, when he and his fellow Synodical Conference delegates refused to recognize brotherly fellowship with Norwegian Synod Pro-fessor F.A. Schmidt, Walther lived and breathed the principles and prac-tice of church fellowship. As with every sinful Christian, at times he fal-tered, but his constant recourse to the Word of God equipped him to fight the inevitable confessional battles he and his fellow Lutherans would face in a new land and to wield the sword of Spirit energetically and evangel-ically for the benefit of the church past and present.
