Persecution in the Early Church - Couverture souple

Workman, Herbert B

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1940017009 ISBN 13 : 9781940017006

Editeur : Warhorn Media, 2014

Synopsis

Persecution and the Christian are as inseparable as the cross and Christ. Yet, many Christians find it difficult to grapple with the history of persecution and martyrdom that has characterized the Church since her infancy. A selective reading of history might give the mistaken impression that each day brought the imminent threat of death or torture for members of the Early Church. On the other hand, some contemporary scholars treat persecution as a myth created by later generations. Thankfully, the scholarship of Herbert Workman dispels both these misconceptions. Workman draws on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, presenting a balanced picture of persecution from the days of the Apostles to the dawn of Christendom. But Workman is more than a scholar-he's a Christian, which means he leaves no room for the reader to approach persecution as a casual observer. He not only demonstrates what true faithfulness looked like in the past, but equips the reader to face the future with faith and courage.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Of the following pages the lecture actually delivered consisted of Chapter I., 1, and of the whole of Chapter V. These sections I have printed unaltered. This will explain a few slight repetitions, as also certain hortatory paragraphs not strictly in keeping with an historical work. The subject of persecution in the early Church, treated as a whole, has been somewhat neglected by English writers. The legal aspects of the matter, the relations of the Church to the Empire, and the nature of the courts and procedure by which the Christians were condemned have been fully dealt with in the researches of Eamsay, Hardy, and others, who approve on the whole of the judgement of Mommsen. The opposite view, though still maintained by certain writers of repute (see infra, Appendix E), has not found any English historian, so far as I know, to defend it at length. Persecution also, treated merely from the standpoint of the Church, the experiences of the martyrs, has, of course, never lacked presentation in this country from the days of Foxe onward.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Warhorn Media
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1940017009
• ISBN 13: 9781940017006
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Éditeur: Congrove Joshua J
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