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I nervously signed up to my first ‘Virtual’ Speed dating event for 29th July There was no refund offered -just a message to say I was now enrolled on an event in October!! I messaged to say this was not acceptable and I simply wanted my money back. The phone no on the website doesn’t work and it’s all beginning to feel very much like a scam.

Don’t waste your money on this site – you may be lucky but, if like me, the event is cancelled, it is impossible to speak to anyone and so far, it is not clear if my refund will happen. Not a pleasant experience.

The food, drink and retail destination on Manchester’s Oxford Road will be playing cupid this Valentine’s. From 6pm, they’re offering a chance for.

At stake in these debates was the question of a textual and doctrinal return ad fontes , as both Reformed and Roman polemicists claimed the authority of the early church for their cause. In a detailed examination of the paratexts of the Rheims New Testament and the King James Bible, a compelling case study of the debates surrounding reform and interpretation is provided. London mixes in the typical problem-novel ingredients: gritty, realistic details; sympathetic, downtrodden victims; greedy capitalist villains and their muscle-headed henchmen; brisk, often violent, action; outraged invective; individual and collective resistance; and radical action for precipitating change.

But, in the process of exposing conditions within American prisons, London deviates sharply and creatively in The Star Rover—not only from the conventions of protest writing but also from the type of writing that normally assured him of good sales and positive reviews. This chapter explores the inaugural moment for the English Reformation, and for the rendering of the scriptures in English within a national church.

In May , Henry VIII began to suggest that it was his duty to cause the New Testament to be translated into English for his subjects, marking a hesitant and reluctant shift towards a possible translation of the Bible. This chapter examines the complex issues involved in the protocols that governed how scripture was disseminated to the laity. This chapter deals with the largely neglected field of political Hebraism.

Biblical citations are ubiquitous in virtually all political discussion in the seventeenth century, yet the political uses of Hebraic scholarship have been more or less absent from scholarship until recent years. The post-Reformation era, with its emphasis on sola scriptura , placed the Bible squarely in the centre of culture. One of the main issues for early modern political theorists was whether God approved or disapproved of a monarchy, based on their interpretation of Deuteronomy 17 and I Samuel 8.