<\/a> Spiritual thanks also to Pastors Rodney and Adonica of the River Church, Tampa Bay, who continue to stand without apology. If it was not for discovering that \u201cgreen desk,\u201d things might be very different today. Spiritual thanks also to Paul and Linda Fenwick of Byker City Fellowship for being \u201cpractitioners of dominion.\u201d Some of those days were the greatest of times.<\/p>\n A special thank you for the forbearance of my wife Sayuri as I pursue these writing projects; her love, support, and literary recommendations for how to improve my emotional intelligence quotient from its previous \u201cunsatisfactory\u201d rating six months after getting married have been invaluable over the last decade. I am repaying her by watching many hundreds of hours of Japanese dramas, a cultural revelation if ever there was one (the Japanese must think their men are useless and women would run things far better); <\/a>I would certainly recommend Doctor X. <\/em>Thanks should also go to her sister Maki, too, for some great recommendations!<\/p>\n Thanks should also go to all at Wipf and Stock publishers for help in bringing this book to life. I am sure there will be a cover designer who has done an excellent job, a proofreader who has suffered long and endured much tribulation to enter into the kingdom, and a typesetter who has earned their wages. It is greatly appreciated that you have agreed to publish my work.<\/p>\n Finally, my greatest debt will always be to my Lord and Savior, whose arrest of me on a Friday evening in 2006 whilst having curry, beer, and watching TV, not remotely interested in studying philosophy or theology, is the ultimate cause as to why this book was written. Every step of the journey of this book was curated in masterful fashion, from the disillusionment with my spiritual life, the introduction to Landa\u2019s work, encountering the Reconstructionist movement, and the appreciation of the enormous legacy of the Reformation, to finally finding the right publisher decades later\u2014Soli Deo Gloria.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nA special thanks to Dr. David Sullivan (ret.) of Bangor University, North Wales, who was a masterful philosophical mentor during my master\u2019s level coursework. Thanks should also go to the current head of the department, Professor Lucy Huskinson, and the former head, now retired Emeritus Professor Davies, for being willing to support this book proposal. Professor Davies once gave me 30 percent for an essay that I thought was great, and we had quite a few in-class conflicts when I thought I knew more than he did and was a higher-quality Christian than he was; that taught me the valuable lessons: (1) always read the recommended sources of your professor, and (2) remember that being a legend in your own mind is an ever-present danger of the human condition.<\/p>\n
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