Unto Death Martyrdom Missions And The Maturity Of The Church
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Unto Death: Martyrdom, Missions, and the Maturity of the Church by Dalton Thomas Pdf
Throughout the three and a half years of His earthly ministry, Jesus consistently called His disciples to expect and embrace suffering, persecution, and martyrdom, exhorting them with such words as,
Salvation in the Gospel of Mark by Gabi Markusse Pdf
The Gospel of Mark portrays Jesus making impossible demands on his disciples. They must follow him even if it costs them their lives. And, unsurprisingly, this proves to be impossible for them to do. They fail drastically in Mark's narrative and run from the scene as Jesus is arrested. Peter had been determined to stay by him unto death, but even he was not able to admit to knowing Jesus at that crucial moment. The strange thing is that Jesus made it clear that it is impossible to enter the Kingdom of God without this sort of radical discipleship. In this narrative study of salvation in the Gospel of Mark, this conundrum is studied closely with surprising results. An investigation of various socio-historical aspects of Mark's background elucidate the connection that Mark makes between the death of Jesus and the following of the disciples. And a study of Mark's narrative as a whole shows that Mark provides hope for those without courage to follow. If they continue to look and listen carefully, the mystery will be unveiled to them.
In modern-day America, it is hard for Christians to imagine ever dying for their faith. And yet in To Share in the Body, author Craig Hovey challenges Christians to view martyrdom not as relegated to the past or to remote parts of the world but rather as having profound implications for Christian witness today. By examining the Gospel of Mark's recurring theme of martyrdom, Hovey argues that martyrdom is a critical aspect of the gospel and therefore crucial to how the church today remembers martyrs and understands Christian discipleship. Written by an up-and-coming theologian, To Share in the Body provides engaging theological reflection that will benefit not only scholars and students of theology but also anyone interested in understanding a biblical view of martyrdom. The book also includes a foreword by Samuel Wells.
Twenty-first-century Christians in the West crave comfort, affluence, freedom from pain, and even power. However, the story of global Christianity—from Christ, the early church, right up to the present day—has been shaped by suffering and even martyrdom. In this short book Edward Smither explores martyrdom both biblically and historically. He defends three claims: in martyrdom we verbally bear witness to Christ, we raise a prophetic voice, and we worship. Christians today, argues Smither, especially those in the West, should welcome suffering and martyrdom as a normal part of the Christian life.
Classic graphic accounts of more than 4,000 Christians who endured suffering, torture, and a martyr’s death because of their simple faith in the gospel of Christ. Includes more than 50 finely detailed etchings by noted Dutch artist Jan Luyken. Songs, letters, prayers, and confessions appear with the stories of many “defenseless Christians” who were able to love their enemies and return good for evil. This gigantic book calls believers to follow Jesus in all areas of life, even unto death. Come what may, true Christian commitment demands supreme discipleship and steadfast adherence to the teachings modeled by Jesus and his apostles. Written and published in 1659 by a Dutch Mennonite, Thieleman J. van Braght, to strengthen the faith of his fellow believers, and translated into German in 1748 at the time of the French and Indian War for the same reason. In 1886 Martyrs Mirror was translated into English to challenge generations of Christians in North America. Free downloadable study guide available here.
Sorrow and Blood by William D. Taylor,Antonia van der Meer,Reg Reimer Pdf
On behalf of the WEA Mission Commission, William Carey Library is pleased to launch a landmark anthology and resource. This is a new publication in the Globalization of Mission series, Sorrow & Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom. The editorial team of William Taylor (USA), Tonica van der Meer (Brazil), and Reg Reimer (Canada) worked over four years to compile this unique resource anthology. This book is the product of the Mission Commission's global missiology task force and a worldwide team of committed colleagues and writers. Some 62 writers from 23 nations have collaborated to generate this unique global resource and anthology. Ajith Fernando of Sri Lanka and Christopher Wright of the UK each wrote prefaces to the book This latest WEA volume has the potential of profoundly shaping our approach to mission in today’s challenging and increasingly dangerous world.
The Spiritualiity of Martyrdom by Servais Pinckaers Pdf
Since the publication in English of his masterwork, The Sources of Christian Ethics, Servais Pinckaers has become the preferred guide for English-speaking students of Catholic moral theology. This late Belgian Dominican has made themes such as Beatitude, happiness, virtue, and freedom for excellence standard features of classroom instruction in ethics, moral theology, and catechesis. Father Pinckaers's new directions in moral theology came none too soon to Anglo-American moral thought, which otherwise would have become submerged completely under the waves of one kind of relativism or another. Instead of enabling cheap escapes from moral truth, Father Pinckaers directs his students to the Sermon on the Mount. There they discover that those who suffer persecution for justice's sake are called blessed or happy. This suffering may even lead to death. The present volume completes Sources. It gives us a theological account of Christian martyrdom. Authentic martyrs testify to the highest meaning that God inscribes into the moral life. In a word, nothing should deter the Christian from choosing God. No one completes a Christian life without becoming, at least, a martyr for charity. -- from back cover.
Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native “idolatries,” or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity.
A Martyr of Our Own Times by Msgr De Hulst,J. Slattery,Brother Hermenegild Pdf
THE biographical sketch which we present to the Christian public is a work of piety in the two acceptations of the term-piety towards God, which finds its aliment in the example of a holy life and a heroic death, and the piety of affectionate remembrance, which induced us to accept the mission that we were offered, more than ten years ago, by the venerable parents of the young martyr.Incessantly interrupted by other labors, and resumed oftentimes only at long inten-als, our task was not accomplished ere the death of M. and Mme. de Bretellieres. Whilst regretting deeply that this we could not give to their tenderness a supreme consolation, and to their generous sacrifice a first recompense, in making them witnesses of the honors accorded the memory of their holy child, we have felt more at our case, on the other hand, in revealing the fact that the son's virtue was inherited from his parents.More than one touching page of this little book had been very difficult to write under the eye of those whose eulogiums were inseparable from the narration of their actions. Comprised within the narrow limits of an existence of twenty-eight years, twenty-six of which ,yere spent in his own family and in the novitiate of the Missions, the life of Just de Bretenieres offers nothing to attract men's attention save the glorious immolation through which he entered into rest. All the beauty of this life is within; and under penalty of travestying the reality, we must needs give our little book the character of an ascetic work. The history of the saints is that of asceticism in action; and without departing from the rules imposed upon biographers by the wisdom of the Church, without forgetting that it belongs to the Holy See alone to decide the titles and the honors of sanctity, we believe we may safely assert that the soul of Just was of the race of saints. Hence, only those will find pleasure in our pages who are interested in the work of grace in a soul, and the progress of that soul by fidelity thereto.As the last months of Just's life were spent in the mission of Corea, and as his precious death inaugurated a long series of persecutions and catastrophes for the Church there, we have belie,'ed it our duty to give an abridged account of those circumstances and events which, in a measure, were naturally connected with the young missionary's history. All this has been recounted elsewhere, and in a more complete form than by ourseh'es. The historian of the Church in Corea, the biographers of Mgr. Berneux, of Mgr. Daveluy, of Mm. Beaulieu and Doric,-Just's companions in martyrdom,-have already giren such information to the public, and their narration is doubtless far superior to ours. But as a biography should suftice of itself, and as it is not to be supposed that the reader of this book should have always before him other works treating of the same events, necessity has led us, towards the end of this volume, into some historical digressions-a fault against art perhaps, but pardonable because of our desire thereby to enlighten our readers on points intimately connected with the life we are narrating.Whilst tracing these lines, we learn that the missionaries now established in Corea have finished the apostolic process of the martyrs (Corean )of 1839, and that the process of the Ordinary is about to commence for the martyrs of 1866. The cause of their beatification thus enters upon its first phase, and it will end, we doubt not, by the act declaring them Venerable. The time, then, is well chosen in which to add a portrait to the gallery of heroes illustrating the Corean Church. moreover, the era of liberty and peace which appears, at last, to have commenced for this portion of Christianity is also propitious to the publication of our narration recalling the days of trial.
Children know about Jesus in the manger, Jesus on the cross, and Jesus rising from the tomb; but, they do not know He is coming back nor that He will be King. Jesus and His White Horse completes the picture of Jesus everyone should know by telling of His return, victory over Satan and the Antichrist, and His Kingdom in a way children will understand and enjoy.
