The Sabbatical Discontinued Amid imperial intrigue

Amid imperial intrigue

and knowledge of the Truth because they stand before the very Throne of God

approachable

From miraculous victories to the soaring heights of culture

but in their disavowal

The Sabbatical Discontinued Amid imperial intrigueDr. Owen Whitfield is the elderly Oxford professor of history who first appeared in Michael O'Brien's novel The Father's Tale. In the events of The Sabbatical, which occur sometime later, Dr. Whitfield is looking forward to a sabbatical year of peace and quiet, gardening in his backyard, and tinkering with what he calls his latest "unpublishable book". As the year begins, he is drawn by a series of seeming coincidences into involvement with a group of