and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation

from the Bible and from the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth century Jesuits up to modern times

discussing the writers who are doing it

and others do not

this volume deliberately follows changes in hermeneutical/theological choices

Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne Fighting disease, distrust and murderous rebellion in Imperial China Noter (kristna) and addresses themes central toThe story of how Tom Cochrane, a Scottish missionary doctor, struggled to bring the benefits of modern scientific medicine to the vast Chinese Empire. In 1897 Tom Cochrane, a young, newly qualified Scottish medical missionary, arrived with his wife in Chaoyang, Inner Mongolia. For three years he laboured single handed in a mud floored dispensary, quickly realising his work was a drop in a sea of suffering. He became seized by the vision of a Western