Books by Oliver Smith

Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times.

PROVERBS 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.1 CORINTHIANS 6:19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?1 CORINTHIANS 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God''s.EZEKIEL 47:12 ... and the leaf thereof for medicine.REVELATION 22:2 ... and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.All of God''s children have a divine responsibility to keep their bodies, which are God''s free of borne diseases. God has supplied each continent of the earth with a natural source of food that is divinely designed to keep God''s children healthy and free of food borne diseases.

While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his work-his idea of the "e;spiritualization of matter"e;, the "e;task"e; of humanity-Smith constructs a rounded picture of Soloviev's overall importance to an understanding. If nineteenth-century thought, as well as to modern theology and philosophy. The picture that emerges is of a writer whose contribution to a Christian philosophy of matter resonates with many of the religious debates of modernity.