The Rifts of Rime

The Rifts of Rime
Author: Steven L. Peck
Publisher: Quickend Chronicles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781599559674

After seizing power, the evil Thane rules as a vicious dictator. Now the only thing standing between him and total domination is the sacred Scroll of Quickening and its guardian, Pinecone. This thrilling adventure story is a truly magical tale for readers of all ages. Join Pinecone in his quest and lose yourself in the pages of this richly detailed fantasy world.

Heterologies

Heterologies
Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816614042

Joseph Smith's Translation

Joseph Smith's Translation
Author: Samuel Morris Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190054247

Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill, and produced an Egyptian "Book of Abraham" derived from funerary papyri he extracted from a collection of mummies he bought from a traveling showman. In addition, he rewrote sections of the King James Version as a "New Translation" of the Bible. Smith and his followers used the term translation to describe the genesis of these English scriptures, which remain canonical for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Whether one believes him or not, the discussion has focused on whether Smith's English texts represent literal translations of extant source documents. On closer inspection, though, Smith's translations are far more metaphysical than linguistic. In Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Brown argues that these translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across barriers of space and time, especially in the developing Mormon temple liturgy. He shows that Smith was devoted to an ancient metaphysics--especially the principle of correspondence, the concept of "as above, so below"--that provided an infrastructure for bridging the human and the divine as well as for his textual interpretive projects. Joseph Smith's projects of metaphysical translation place Mormonism at the productive edge of the transitions associated with shifts toward "secular modernity." This transition into modern worldviews intensified, complexly, in nineteenth-century America. The evolving legacies of Reformation and Enlightenment were the sea in which early Mormons swam, says Brown. Smith's translations and the theology that supported them illuminate the power and vulnerability of the Mormon critique of American culture in transition. This complex critique continues to resonate and illuminate to the present day.

Echoing Time

Echoing Time
Author: Michelle Stojic
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524511579

Echoing Time is part of a chronology of stories initiated by the miscreant Trillem Pax Kenroo and his search for universal intergalactic domination. However, he is thwarted early on by providence and the stalwart nature of a young Arapaho girl named Marin Wanderhorse. Marin is kidnapped by the ghostly spectre of Kenroo, whose mission was to gain corporeal form and rule the earth. Marin successfully hinders his efforts throughout history, returning his abominations to the normal flow of history as written. Eventually, Marin is successful in returning Kenroo toward his destined path of redemption, but she is lost in the paradox of quantum string and multidimensional travel. Her parents dont give up on finding her and, with the help a discredited quantum physicist and a hippie commune in the Sonora region of Arizona, discover and capture a quantum string. Eventually, they are able to use the string to travel between realities, stopping an international arms deal, returning lost art taken by the Nazis to Jewish families, and returning the antagonist, Kenroo, to his prescribed destiny.

Chrono Shattered

Chrono Shattered
Author: Cindy Monica
Publisher: Cindy Monica
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2024-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In the distant future, humanity has unlocked the secrets of time travel, but with it comes the danger of shattering the delicate fabric of reality. When the time travel program is hijacked by a mysterious entity known only as The Keeper, a team of unlikely explorers is sent on a high-stakes mission to retrieve lost artifacts from critical moments in history. Cole "Ace" Hawkins, a skilled yet reckless time pilot, leads the mission. Alongside him are Nora Steele, a brilliant but socially awkward scientist, and Cody Blake, a prankster mechanic who often finds himself in over his head, yet always manages to save the day in the most unexpected ways. Their goal is simple: navigate through dangerous rifts in time, retrieve the artifacts, and return to their original timeline. However, when their mission goes awry and they accidentally alter a major historical event, they find themselves trapped in a collapsing world—a twisted reality held together by the unstable rift they created. The Keeper, an entity that controls the very essence of time, turns against them, manipulating the timeline to trap them in an endless loop of distorted realities.