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ISBN:
1591607213 Format: Paperback, 324pp Publisher: Xulon Press Pub. Date: August 2003 |
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The Second Mission is a unique and revolutionary historical novel.
Novelist, L. D. Alford, implants not just history but literature into
his newest book about the last days of Socrates. The Second Mission is
an engrossing Christian worldview novel that takes the unprecedented
step of enveloping the reader in the time, culture, literature, and
politics of ancient Greece. It uses a C. H. Lewis-like style to pull
the reader into the real history of the era in a manner unlike any novel
written before.
The Second Mission explores time through the eyes of humankind’s second
mission into the past. In the year 399 B.C. the city-state of Athens
was the hub of a new political system. It was a cultural axis for art,
poetry, and law. It was the heart of the science of philosophy—and
philosophers. And the death of Socrates was the pivotal moment that
drew the second mission.
The Second Mission reveals the unintentional journey of a modern man,
Alan Fisher, into time. He is an accidental and unwilling participant
in humankind’s second greatest adventure. Sophia, the actual time
agent, became his reluctant guide. She had trained ten years to become
Sophia, a Greek woman of 399 B.C. The second mission was her mission,
and she did not want to share it with anyone. Now she was responsible
for her mission as well as the survival of the interloper, Alan. They
were linked together for better or worse in the second most important
mission of mankind. For one year of history, 400 to 399 B.C., in the
city-state of Athens in the place now called Greece, neither Alan nor
Sophia could return to their own times.
Alan discovered the purpose of the second mission was observation and
verification—to record the words and death of Socrates. This was the
second most important historical research to future generations.
Although Sophia would share little information about the future with
Alan, he discovered the purpose of the first mission, and that
information changed his life forever.
Alan Fisher, marooned in time, turned into Sophia’s greatest hope for
success and, because of the first mission, Sophia became Alan’s greatest
hope of spiritual deliverance. The first mission changed Sophia’s
world, and the second mission would also change the future of mankind.
L. D. Alford draws the reader into the world of Socrates’ Athens in the year 399 B.C. In this world, the ancient eclipses the modern and world of the Athenian philosophers becomes real—real to the characters of the novel and real to the reader. |
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For the Student
The Second Mission distinctively brings to life Socrates, Plato, and the
School of Hellas. It is an electrifying adventure story that provides a
stimulating method to introduce and place into context the Socratic
dialogues: Euthyphro, Cratylus, Crito, Phaedo, and The Apology of
Socrates. Students will find the renditions of these works fresh and
exciting. Everyone will find the ideas, transplanted and accentuated by
modern dialogue, inspiring and resonating.
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Ancient Greece: Through the Eyes of Socrates |
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Where: East Wichita Shepherd's Center 4407 East Douglas Wichita, KS 67218 316 682-0504 When: Fall Semester 2009 Tuesdays 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. What: Session #1 - Ancient Greece - Introduction Session #2 - Ancient Greece - Time and Place Session #3 - Ancient Greece - Paganism and Musterion Session #4 - Ancient Greece - Greek Life Session #5&6 - Ancient Greece - Socrates |
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