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| Titre : | Foxe's Christian Martyrs of the World |
| Auteurs : | John Foxe, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | Newly revised and illustrated |
| Editeur : | Chicago [USA] : Moody Bible Institute of Chicago (Moody Press), c. 1960 |
| Format : | vi + 597 p. / ill. N&B |
| Note générale : | 1ère édition: 1563 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | HQ/A (Persécutions: généralités et divers) |
| Résumé : |
Snug in our corner of the earth; wealthy, comparatively speaking; equipped on every hand with electrical gadgets, time-savers and other comforts; complimented for our high attainments and inventions; how are Christians in the United States and Canada going to realize to any degree what the Lord meant when He said, “In me ye have peace. In the world ye have tribulation” (John 16:33, R.V.) ? And what of Paul’s exhortation in Acts 14:22, that Christians continue in the faith because “through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God”?
Tribulation and persecution for us? No, surely not; they are for other lands and for other times. But the history of our Christian faith does not give us much hope for a long period of Christian peace of mind based on compatible, popular living. The stake, the noose and the firing squad are the concomitants of Christian faith in many lands today. Shall we be exempt forever? It is not a pleasant experience to read Foxe’s Christian Martyrs of the World-, but it is one means of awakening the Christian grace of sympathy for those already suffering, and of acquiring “hardness as a good soldier” for what is before us. Future Babylon, whatever your interpretation may be of Revelation 17:6, is represented as a “woman drunken with the blood of the martyrs.” Shall we shake off the implications of this clear statement when in our time we have seen or known of those drunken with the desire to torture, maim and kill by hideous means? May Christians awaken to the price the martyrs paid to maintain a testimony to their faith, and a “conscience void of offence toward God.” Here is a book severely realistic. It is an alarm in the night. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Publishers’ Preface - Preface - Incidents in the Life of John Foxe - Index of Illustrations - I. A Short History of Christ’s Life on Earth - II. The Lives, Suffering, and Cruel Deaths of the Apostles and Evangelists - III. First General Persecution of the Christians : under Nero, A.D. 64 - IV. Assault of Jerusalem, a.d. 70 - V. The Fourth Persecution : under Marcus Aurelius, a.d. 163 - VI. The Fifth General Persecution under the Roman Emperors, a.d. 200 - VII. The Eighth General Persecution under the Roman Emperors, a.d. 257 - VIII. The Tenth General Persecution under the Roman Emperors, a.d. 303 - IX. Constantine, the First Christian Emperor of Rome, a.d. 306 - X. Rome and the Empire of the West, a.d. 375-400 - XI. Beginning of Persecution by the Roman Church, a.d. 1200 - XII. The Mohammedans, or Saracens - XIII. The Inquisition - XIV. Persecutions in Bohemia - XV. The Reformation in Germany - XVI. France and the Huguenots - XVII. Bible Translators and Revisers - XVIII. England During the Reign of Henry VIII - XIX. Progress of the Bible in England during the Reign of Henry VIII - XX. England during Henry VIII’s Reign—Continued - XXI. Incidents in the Reign of King Edward VI of England - XXII. Persecution in England during the Reign of Queen Mary - XXIII. England during the Reign of Queen Mary— Continued - XXIV. England during Queen Mary’s Reign—Continued - XXV. England during the Reign of Queen Mary— Continued - XXVI. England during the Reign of Queen Mary— Continued - Index of Martyrs |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| HQ/A 006 | HQ/A 006 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
