Traditional theistic proofs are often understood as evidence intended to compel belief in a divinity. John Clayton explores the surprisingly varied applications of such proofs in the work of philosophers and theologians from several periods and traditions, thinkers as varied as Ramanuja, al-Ghazali, Anselm, and Jefferson. He shows how the gradual disembedding of theistic proofs from their diverse and local religious contexts is concurrent with the development of natural theologies and atheism as social and intellectual options in early modern Europe and America. Clayton offers a fresh reading...

Dripping Honey is the story of a young boy's obsession with the arrival of black American GIs into his hometown in 1942. He experiences the infectious energy and distinctive rhythms imported by the visitors and recounts the excitement, confusion, sexual tension and racial confrontation which disrupt the stark routine of working class family life. Based on a true story, Dripping Honey is a stirring and sometimes heart-rending account of the vagaries of wartime subsistence in Britain. It reveals the inexorable yielding of adults to profit from adversity and is a reminder of children's...

Dripping Honey is the story of a young boy's obsession with the arrival of black American GIs into his hometown in 1942. He experiences the infectious energy and distinctive rhythms imported by the visitors and recounts the excitement, confusion, sexual tension and racial confrontation which disrupt the stark routine of working class family life. Based on a true story, Dripping Honey is a stirring and sometimes heart-rending account of the vagaries of wartime subsistence in Britain. It reveals the inexorable yielding of adults to profit from adversity and is a reminder of children's...