There is something serendipitous in the
fact that I finished reading this book a few days ago, just in time
for this past Sunday's Mass Readings – and hence our Monday Night
Scripture Study Group a few nights ago – to include the story of
the Woman Caught in Adultery from the Gospel of St. John, 8:1-11. I
was thus able to use a situation posited herein as a launching point
for discussion in our group.
But before bringing up our thoughts
regarding the interpretation of that passage proposed by the
characters here, which I assume represents Eidemiller's position,
regarding the implications of the words that Jesus speaks to the
woman, let me provide an overall review and comments.
It's quickly apparent that this sequel to
As Iron Sharpens Iron forges a connection between the world of
Eidemiller's fan-fiction “Christian Adventures of Doc Savage”
series, formally The Bronze Saga, and the separate
universe that is the setting for the Irons Alliance tales.
Indeed, this story launches directly out of the sixth Bronze Saga
novel, Bronze New World, with a minor character introduced
there becoming the central character of this book which tells the
back story of the mentor character bringing together the members of
the Irons Alliance. Of course, that means that this tale is
ultimately tied into the old television series, The Time Tunnel,
as was Bronze New World. That character (appropriately named
Tempor) travels through time back to the early 20th
century and proceeds by his presence and nudges to events as they
unfold through the years to explain the divergences from our own
“real world's” history that were so apparent in As Iron
Sharpens Iron.
