Sea Changes

When her East Yorkshire family is shaken by news of the German occupation of Norway in 1940, Rachel Skelton takes leave from her military hospital to cross the North Sea and rescue her grandmother, Hedda, from Bergen. During her short stay there Rachel is reacquainted with Olav Larsen, a distant relative. Olav has changed since her pre-war visits, and Rachel immediately feels that he fills a long-felt gap in her life. For Rachel, the life-changing meeting with Olav has left her longing to know that he is safe while the war deprives her of news of him. Her emotions become torn between her concern for this Norwegian and her good working relationship with surgeon Hamish Wilson. Hamish saves Rachel's life and her whole family respond to his evident devotion to her, but will this prove enough to make her forget the feelings Olav generated during their brief reunion?'

Table of Contents:
Foreword; xiii; Introductory Essay; David Koyzis; Political Theory in the Calvinist Tradition; 1; Dooyeweerd's unique contribution 5; Politics and the state 7; Power and justice: transcending another false polarity 11; The Christian Idea of the State; Emil Brunner rejects the Christian idea of the state 17; National-Socialism and Fascism and the idea of the Christian state 18; The ever new, inspiring idea of the Christian state and the causes of its decline 18; Synthesis and antithesis 18; Actually, there is but one radical and Scriptural idea of the Christian state 19; The contrast of "nature" and "grace" is non-Scriptural. Scripture posits the heart as the religious center of human existence 19; The pagan view that "reason" is the supra-temporal center of a person's being 20; The effects of compromise of Christian and pagan views. The scheme of "nature" and "grace" as a result of this compromise 20; Thomas Aquinas on human nature. "Nature" as portal of "grace" 20; Aristotle: the pagan idea of the state. The state as the highest bond of human society, of which all other societal relationships are but dependent parts 21; The pagan totalitarian idea of the state and its revival in National-Socialism and Fascism 22; The truly Christian view of the state takes its stance in the supratemporal root-community of redeemed humanity in Christ Jesus 22; All temporal societal relationships ought to be manifestations of the supra-temporal, invisible church of Christ 22; The kingdom of God as the all-embracing rule of God 23; vii; The Christian idea of sphere sovereignty over against the pagan view that the state is related to the other societal structures as the whole to its parts 23; The Roman Catholic view of the Christian state - Thomas Aquinas - is a falling away from the Scriptural conception 24; Infiltration of the pagan totality-idea in the Roman Catholic concept of the church 24; A false view of the Christian state: the state is subject to the temporal church-institute 24; Penetration of this view in modern denominational political parties 24; The Reformation over against the Roman Catholic view of Christian society 25; Nominalism in Late-Scholasticism 25; The nominalistic conception of the law as subjective arbitrariness and the Thomistic idea of the law as rational order 25; The nominalist dualism of nature and grace 26; This dualism was perpetuated in Luther's law-gospel polarity 27; Melanchthon's synthesis 27; Brunner continues Luther's dualism 27; Calvin breaks with the dualistic nature-grace scheme 28; Calvin's Scriptural view of law 28; The law as boundary between God and creature 28; Calvin's view of the divine creation-order contrasted with Thomas Aquinas 29; The principle of sphere sovereignty: Calvin and Althusius 29; The greater influence of Melanchthon's synthesis predominates 29; The rise of the modern humanistic world-and-life-view 30; The overpowering influence of the new mathematical science ideal upon modern culture 30; The humanist

About the Author :
Kay Stephens was born and brought up in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and her affection for Yorkshire ensures that its valleys and moors frequently feature as the setting for her novels. Kay is a member of The Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Authors.