¡Un hombre conforme al corazón de Dios! Desde que leí esta expresión de Dios para describir a David, quedé cautivado. De modo que me dediqué a estudiar las Escrituras para conocer su personalidad, su temperamento, sus razonamientos, su forma de adorar, su modo de enfrentar las injusticias de la vida, sus debilidades y sus pecados, así como la manera en que los enfrentó. Tras años de estudio, hoy comparto lo aprendido de mi análisis; pero, más que todo, lo que he tratado de imitar de su ejemplo. Eso me llevó a la conclusión de que todo el que quiera tener un corazón conforme al de Dios debe seguir a este modelo de hombre, hijo, hermano, amigo, adorador, líder y estadista. Es fascinante ver cómo se abren los cielos sobre aquellos que desarrollan la fe para creer que Dios bendecirá y prosperará a aquel cuyo corazón se parezca al de Jesucristo. Si lee este libro para aprender la historia del mejor rey de Israel, solo obtendrá conocimiento; pero si lo hace para seguir las huellas de ese gran hombre, su vida se transformará e impactará a los que le rodeen. Muchas personas de esta generación anhelan ser grandes «influencers», que los recuerden por su fama y su fortuna; sin embargo, a los que quieran dejar un verdadero legado y unas huellas que otros quieran seguir, les invito a leer La unción de David.

In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bricks and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built by this deliberate practice, here given the name "Building-in-Time." It places an entirely new light on the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter's. Even as this temporal regime was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new one for architecture, in which time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture ("Building-outside-Time"). Planning and building, which had always formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time was to be excluded from architectural making.

This systematic study isolates those themes with which the early Church proclaimed and celebrated the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan.

Based on a conference held in 2009 at the University of Edinburgh.

This study considers the ways Spanish American and Brazilian poets differ from their European counterparts by considering 'Latin American' as more than a perfunctory epithet. It sets the orthodox Latin tradition of the subcontinent against others that have survived or grown up after the conquest then pays attention to those poets who, from Independence, have striven to express a specifically American moral and geographical identity. Dr Brotherson focuses on Modernismo, or the 'coming of age' of poetry in Spanish America and Brazil, and the importance of the movements associated with it. He considers César Vallejo and Pablo Neruda, probably the greatest of the selection, Octavio Paz, and modern poets who have reacted differently to the idea that Latin America might now be thought to have not just a geographical but a nascent political identity of its own. Poems are liberally quoted, and treated as entities in their own right.