An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know.

A US State Senator is dead, & Mark Sway is

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A US State Senator is dead, & Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden.

The FBI want him to tell them

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An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know.

A US State Senator is dead, & Mark Sway is

...

An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know.

A US State Senator is dead, & Mark Sway is

...

Lloyd George once spoke of 'a very powerful combination
- in its way the most powerful in the country'. Its proceedings were invariably
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Lloyd George once spoke of 'a very powerful combination
- in its way the most powerful in the country'. Its proceedings were invariably
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Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons have a reputation for craziness, there are seven adult children, & Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives against her will. But in the end it is hard to tell whether she is a victim of the needy Emersons, or the de facto ruler of the family. ...

The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity & to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed & sustained the Greek intellectual tradition which, in the astronomy of Ptolemy, the medicine of Galen & the philosophy of Plotinus, reached new heights. Constantine turned Rome from the relatively open, tolerant & pluralistic civilisation of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority. The century after Constantine's conversion saw the development of an alliance between church & state which stifled freedom of thought & the tradition of Greek rationalism which was intrinsic to it. The churches enjoyed enormous patronage & exemptions from tax, & in return allowed the emperors to take on the definition & enforcement of an increasingly narrow religious orthodoxy. This book explores how the European mind was closed by the revolution of the fourth century. It looks at the rise of the 'divine' monarch, the struggle as Christianity painfully separated itself from Judaism, the conflict between faith & reason, & the problems in finding any kind of rational basis for Christian theology. In these centuries, a turning-point for Western civilisation, we see the development of Christian anti-Semitism, the origins of the opposition of religion & science & the roots of Christianity's discomfort with sex, issues which haunt the Christian churches to this day. The Closing of the Western Mind is a major work of history. Wide-ranging & ambitious, its central theme is the relationship between the two wellsprings of our civilisation, the Judaeo-Christian & the Greco-Roman, & how the tensions between them have created the culture in which we continue to live, think & believe. ...

The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity & to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed & sustained the Greek intellectual tradition which, in the astronomy of Ptolemy, the medicine of Galen & the philosophy of Plotinus, reached new heights. Constantine turned Rome from the relatively open, tolerant & pluralistic civilisation of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority. The century after Constantine's conversion saw the development of an alliance between church & state which stifled freedom of thought & the tradition of Greek rationalism which was intrinsic to it. The churches enjoyed enormous patronage & exemptions from tax, & in return allowed the emperors to take on the definition & enforcement of an increasingly narrow religious orthodoxy. This book explores how the European mind was closed by the revolution of the fourth century. It looks at the rise of the 'divine' monarch, the struggle as Christianity painfully separated itself from Judaism, the conflict between faith & reason, & the problems in finding any kind of rational basis for Christian theology. In these centuries, a turning-point for Western civilisation, we see the development of Christian anti-Semitism, the origins of the opposition of religion & science & the roots of Christianity's discomfort with sex, issues which haunt the Christian churches to this day. The Closing of the Western Mind is a major work of history. Wide-ranging & ambitious, its central theme is the relationship between the two wellsprings of our civilisation, the Judaeo-Christian & the Greco-Roman, & how the tensions between them have created the culture in which we continue to live, think & believe. ...