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'Let us die that we may live'by Johan Leemans; Wendy Mayer; Pauline Allen; Boudewijn Dehandschutter
Routledge 2003; US$ 39.95Let us die that we may live' offers an approachable, surprising, and not always reverent insight into the life of the Early Church. It reveals the full importance of the martyr homily in terms of style and treatment of its subject. more...
Blood of Martyrsby Joyce E. Salisbury
Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95In The Blood of Martyrs, Salisbury chronicles the many spectacles of violent martydom that took place during the first three centuries of the Christian era. more...
There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christby Michael Gaddis
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95"There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power. Drawing together materials spanning a wide chronological and geographical range, Gaddis asks what religious conflict meant to those involved, both perpetrators and victims, and how violence was experienced, represented, justified, or contested. His innovative analysis reveals how various groups employed the language... more...
The Martyrs of Columbineby Justin Watson
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 28.00During the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both supposedly answered "yes" and were killed. This volume investigates what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture. more...
Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Cultureby John N. King
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 36.00A comprehensive investigation of the Book of Martyrss compilation, printing, publication, illustration, and reception. more...
The Broken Fallby Toni Orrill
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 15.99This book chronicles a writer's journey to find faith, hope, and meaning following the country's worst national disaster? Hurricane Katrina. Acknowledging that everyone experiences catastrophic events in their life, the author eloquently unveils the seasons of recovery after one of the most sensational and historical subjects of the decade. more...
Martyrdom and Identityby MIchael Jensen
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 130.00What does Christian martyrdom tell us about being a self? I argue that Christian martyrdom provides a coherent and compelling narration of the self in terms of the narrative of the life and death of Jesus Christ: a narrative that orients the self in hope towards the good and turns the self towards recognition of and sacrificial service of other selves. In conversation with writers such as Salman Rushdie and Charles Taylor and prompted by T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, I show that Christian discipleship is not the path of establishing oneself securely, or pursuing the good made possible through collaboration with earthly power, or making oneself an identity through action according to some ideal, or seeking earthly or heavenly renown,... more...
Book of Martyrsby John Foxe
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an apocalyptically-oriented, English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, mainly in England, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was first published by John Day, in 1563. Lavishly produced and illustrated with many woodcuts, when issued it was the largest publishing project undertaken in Britain up to that time. Commonly known as, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", the work's full title begins with "Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church." There were many subsequent editions, also by Day, who worked closely with Foxe. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the... more...
To Share in the Bodyby Craig Hovey
Baker Publishing Group 2008; US$ 22.00To sharpen Christian witness today, Craig Hovey presents stimulating theological reflection on martyrdom through the lens of Mark. more...
Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxyby Geoffrey de Ste. Croix; Michael Whitby; Joseph Streeter
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 125.00This volume brings together seven seminal papers by the great radical historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, who died in 2000, on early Christian topics, with an especial focus on persecution and martyrdom. Christian martyrdom is a topic which conjures up ready images of inhumane persecutors confronted by Christian heroes who perish for the instant but win the long-term battle for reputation. In five of these essays Ste. Croix scrutinizes the evidence to reveal the significant role ofChristian themselves, first as volunteer martyrs and later, after the triumph of Christianity in the early fourth century, as organizers of much more effective persecutions. A sixth essay pursues the question of the control of Christianity through a comprehensive study... more...









