In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a prince? Mikha’il Mishaqa’s lifelong search for truth starts here. Soon he’s reading Newtonian science and the radical ideas of Voltaire and Volney: he loses his religion, turning away from the Catholic Church. Thirty years later, as civil war rages in Syria, he finds a new faith – Evangelical Protestantism. His obstinate polemics scandalise his community. Then, in 1860, Mishaqa barely escapes death in the most notorious event in Damascus: a massacre of seve Prophet of Reason - Peter Hill od authora Peter Hill a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Peter Hill |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
368 |
| Rok vydání |
2024 |
| Nakladatelství |
Oneworld |
