Dios ilumina la vida

After suffering a personal loss, the doctor Marco Polo goes to Jerusalem to confront a surprising question: did Jesus know how handle his own mind? Moving past a mythical persona, he analyzes a man who could handle losses and frustrations with resilience and a talent to form brilliant goals. Millions on the internet follow the debates about his research, but no one is prepared to see Jesus under such a revolutionary microscope.

Based on King David's example, it teaches today's leaders about forming effective work teams, delegating, overcoming problems, dealing with difficult people, and much more.

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story. Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie have helped to pioneer our appreciation of the Gospels, and Mark in particular, as narratives originally created in an oral culture for oral performance. New in this edition are a revised introduction and an afterword describing the significant role Mark as Story has played in the development of narrative criticism.

Papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 41, 42 and 43). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the...