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Fox's Book of Martyrs
By John Foxe
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Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Since the English monarchs also asserted control over the Church in England, a change in rulers could change the legal status of religious practices. As a consequence, adherents of one religion risked judicial execution by the State depending on the attitudes of the rulers. During Mary's reign, common people of Christian faith were publicly burned at the stake in an attempt to eliminate dissension from Catholic doctrines. Foxe's account of Mary's reign and the martyrdoms that took place during it contributed very significantly to the belief in a distinction from the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope as a central aspect of English national identity. By compiling his record, Foxe intended to demonstrate a historical justification for the foundation of the Church of England as a contemporary embodiment of the true and faithful church, rather than as a newly established Christian denomination.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Considered 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 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What can I say? It is humbling reading. So glad I read it finally.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Wow! 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.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'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 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.)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A 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 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).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It 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 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.
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