Böcker av Kenneth Collins

Kenneth Collins, the leading chronicler of Scotland's Jews and a medical historian, tells the story of his family from its origins in Ukraine in the first half of the eighteenth century. He follows the descendants of his great-grandfather Zev Kagarlitsky in Russia, America, Argentina, France, Israel, England, and Scotland. Zev was born in a village near Kiev in 1854 and died in Tel Aviv in 1931. There is a cast of colourful characters including Marxists in Russia, a Holocaust survivor in France, an unexpected death of a Soviet commercial agent in London, early Zionist pioneers and businessmen in Scotland and America. Collin's grandfather arrived in Glasgow in 1912 and he explores the family integration into the business and professional life of Scotland's largest city, and home of most of its Jewish community. The book uses archival research in four continents, genealogical connections, and oral history to tell a story of a family whose experience mirrors Jewish life over almost three centuries. This is a warm and lively account of an international family that has succeeded in maintaining close links over succeeding generations, from Buenos Aires to Moscow and from the West Coast.

Thirty two years after the founding of Levnar, The young kingdom thrives. Yet a series of brutal attacks by the neighboring kingdom of batlike Talomay threatens to send the continent into war.The new king of Levnar aided by his mother, Gwynora, and Cador the Seer, attempts to keep his people safe while learning to fill his admired father's shoes. The Talomay king also sends an investigator to discover the true motive of the attacks on the humans as he believes someone is undermining his sovereignty.As more bloodshed occurs, the investigator teams up with two humans affected by the attacks, Bran and Katta, to bring the murderers to justice before the kingdoms are at war. However there may be more at stake than the fates of two kingdoms; clues to the origin of their world may lie at the center of the turmoil.

Taking its title from one of John Wesley's most important sermons, The Scripture Way of Salvation explores the soteriological content of Wesley's entire literary corpus (sermons, letters, theological treatises, journals, and the notes on the Old and New Testaments). Fundamentally a doctrinal study, it is historically sensitive to the subtle shifts and nuances of Wesley's continuing reflections about the processes of salvation and the nature of Christian life. Collins provides a clear discussion of Wesley's emerging views about the development and maturation of Christian life, and in so doing highlights the essential structure that undergirds and provides the framework for Wesley's way of thinking about the processes of salvation.