What happens when both love and loyalty are put to the test between the ones you call family? When it’s all said and done, is blood indeed thicker than water? Karmen Howard vowed early on no one, and she meant no one would run her life. She lived her life how she wanted, not worrying about what others thought about it. Amongst those people who wanted to call the shots in her life was her religious father who only drove her further away. Then there was her husband, Adonis, who she had been with her entire life. Adonis, every women’s dream man, came from the hood and was never seen as the type a “Howard” girl should be with. However, being with Karmen made him want to change his ways and become a better man. While he strives to be what she needs, his wife’s wounds run deeper than he’ll ever know. Just when doing all he can to be what she needs began to weigh him down, his sister-in-law moves in with them which takes their lives on a rollercoaster in a completely different direction. While both girls were raised in a Christian home under strict rules and demands, Kashae knew it had to be more to life. Unexpectedly, being able to move in with her sister and brother in law she was ecstatic, but what she didn’t bank on was what was to come. Realizing her sister and brother in law didn’t have the picture-perfect marriage threw her for a loop. They always seemed happy and so in love but being under the same roof with them proved differently.

Critical essays on Shakespeare's epic poem, "Venus and Adonis".

Classical Trinitarianism holds that every action of Trinity in the world is inseparable. That is, the divine persons are equally active in every operation. But then, in what way did the Father create the world through Christ? How can only the Son be incarnate, die, and be resurrected? Why does Christ have to ascend before the Spirit may come? These and many other questions pose serious objections to the doctrine of inseparable operations. In the first book-length treatment of this doctrine, Adonis Vidu takes up these questions and offers a conceptual and dogmatic analysis of this essential axiom, engaging with recent and historical objections. Taking aim at a common “soft” interpretation of the inseparability rule, according to which the divine persons merely cooperate and work in concert with one another, Vidu argues for the retrieval of “hard inseparability,” which emphasizes the unity of divine action, primarily drawing from the patristic and medieval traditions. Having probed the biblical foundations of the rule and recounted the story of its emergence in nascent Trinitarianism and its neglect in modern theology, Vidu builds a constructive case for its retrieval. The rule is then tested precisely on the battlegrounds that were thought to have witnessed its defeat: the doctrines of creation, incarnation, atonement, ascension, and the indwelling of the Spirit. What emerges is a constructive account of theology in which the recovery of this dogmatic rule shines fresh light on ancient doctrines.

A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.

At first glance Sufism and Surrealism appear to be as far removed from one another as is possible. Adonis, however, draws convincing parallels between the two, contesting that God, in the traditional sense does not exist in Surrealism or in Sufism, and that both are engaged in parallel quests for the nature of the Absolute, through 'holy madness' and the deregulation of the senses. This is a remarkable investigation into the common threads of thought that run through seemingly polarised philosophies from East and West, written by a man Edward Said referred to as 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arab modernity'.

"Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.