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Emerald House Group Inc (1978), 395 pages
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Beginning with the story of Stephen from the book of Acts, considered the first Christian martyr, the drama builds to the passion of the early Church's persecution under the Roman Empire. The hardy and radical faith of those first believers spawned medieval missionary movements that spread the gospel across Europe and into England, Scotland, and Ireland. As the story continues, it places a significant emphasis on the sufferings of the early Protestants during the Reformation. As a vicar in the Church of England, author John Foxe strongly identified with the Protestant sects throughout Europe, and his loyalty to their cause comes through in his descriptions of many early clashes between Catholic and Protestant believers. Listeners are given an opportunity to experience the storytelling that incited several wars between Catholic and Protestant forces. The political and personal passion of the Reformation continues with the stories of the French Protestants during and after the French Revolution.… (more)
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LibraryThing member lgfarlow
A classic that should be in the library of every believer. These amazing accounts make me both thankful and somewhat ashamed when I consider what our ancestors had to go through for the faith that we take so for granted in the west including the ability to read the Bible in English. It's also
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interesting to realize as you read this that the primary persecutors of Christians after the fall of the Roman Empire were those who also called themselves Christians (primarily from the church at Rome). Show Less
LibraryThing member kwmcdonald
It took me over a year to finish reading this, a little bit at a time...you can only read about people being tortured and killed in every way imaginable (and some not imaginable) for so long at a time. Although it's probably good that this kind of thing got chronicled for history, it is some of the
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hardest reading I've ever done. Not just because people are getting tortured, maimed, and burned, but he tends to go into a lot of fairly mundane details...and after a few hundred pages, the emotional effect kind of gets lost as well. It starts to sound like you've heard all the stories before, only with different names. If you don't have my dysfunction of feeling unable to just read part of a book, you could read the first 50 pages or so and get pretty much the same effect as reading the whole book. Show Less
LibraryThing member MsJolee
Considered only second to the Bible in importance to the Christian, Voice of the Martyrs, was first published in 1563 under the original title Acts and Monuments of the Christian Marytrs by John Foxe, who collected the stories up to his time. It was a book not at first well received, as it offended
This is a must read for Christians and students of history. The stories are vivid and inspirational accounts of Christian martyrs who gave their lives for their faith.
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many people due to the nature of its violent content. However, the stories must be told. The book begins with the story of Stephen in 34 AD and continues up to today by contributiang authors under the direction of the Livingstone Corporation.This is a must read for Christians and students of history. The stories are vivid and inspirational accounts of Christian martyrs who gave their lives for their faith.
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LibraryThing member FriendsLibraryFL
This unparalleled classic recounts the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of Christian martyrs throughout history.Beginning with the first martyr, Jesus Christ, this exceptional historical record traces the roots of religious persecution. It focuses on such great men as John Wycliffe, John
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Huss, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, Thomas Crammer, and many others.Since Foxe also knew persecution, his writings possess a sense of immediacy and insight into suffering that few "objective" church historians can match.This edition has streamlined the and reorganize the original book of martyrs in order to present Foxe's story crisply. The editor, W. Grinton Berry, was aware of the readers desire for clarity. He observes that Foxe's "discursiveness" discourages today's reader, "who likes narratives that are clean-cut, swift, full of movement, making straight for the point." Berry's consciousness of modern literary tastes gives the text it's smoothness, as does his conviction that "Foxe's narratives judge merely on literary grounds, are among the most graphic in the most readable in our literature." Show Less
LibraryThing member BethanyBible
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history from the first century through the early sixteenth centuries, emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely
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owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the nature of Catholicism for several centuries. Show Less
LibraryThing member DomingoSantos
I've heard about this book for years, but never took an opportunity to read it. My impression? "Foxe's [some titles use “Fox's"] Book of Martyrs" is the Christian equivalent to Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" in terms of tedious reading. "Martyrs" makes compelling examples of the evils of the
I waded through about 20% of the narrative before I gave up in frustration over the overly-detailed narrative, the grammatical "noise" of the translation, instances of repetitiveness, and simple boredom. That is not to say that the subject matter is not important and educational; it's just that the presentation leaves a lot to be desired.
(Note: This book was the Kindle e-book version, which was not a selection option on librarything.)
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pagans against early Christians, followed by similar examples of the evils propagated by the Inquisition of the Dark Ages.I waded through about 20% of the narrative before I gave up in frustration over the overly-detailed narrative, the grammatical "noise" of the translation, instances of repetitiveness, and simple boredom. That is not to say that the subject matter is not important and educational; it's just that the presentation leaves a lot to be desired.
(Note: This book was the Kindle e-book version, which was not a selection option on librarything.)
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LibraryThing member cjsdg
Tremendous and tragic. Foxe's temperament and work on this book gave him a personal distaste for religious violence that does him credit. To be sure, he presents the Anglican side, and the Roman Catholic church bears the brunt of his opprobrium. Some incredible stories; easy to forget that only two
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hundred years ago, Christians were burning each other to death for religious disagreements. It is horrible to realize how much persecution of Christians is done by Christians. But we must remember that our own blind spot is to treat the things of God too lightly. We need to land somewhere between making martyrs and the cruelty of heresy. Show Less
LibraryThing member david__clifford
Wow! This is a difficult book to read not because it is hard to understand but due to the suffering that so many endured even to the point of death for the sake of Christ. This book will make you think about your own faith and how deep it runs.
LibraryThing member nylandce
This is a large abridgment of Foxes 8 volume work.
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1554
Physical description
8.5 inches
ISBN
1898787506 / 9781898787501