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    Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness
    Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness
    Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness
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    Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness

    By Joshua J. Whitfield and Stanley Hauerwas

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    As an explicitly christological witness, martyrdom offers a limited but vital description of the present within the various and unpredictable arenas of living, suffering, and dying. That is to say, martyrdom is not the tragic conclusion of some fatal ideological conflict but a momentary truthful glimpse of present circumstances. Martyrdom reveals, clarifies, and illumines what we take for the real. Martyrs are therefore significant for the church today because they exhibit the sort of truthful living that refuses the claims of history and power without Christ; they show the sort of living and dying that returns forgiveness upon murder, and patience beyond domination. Meditating primarily on the second-century martyrdoms in Lyons and Vienne, France, Pilgrim Holiness offers a view of Christian martyrdom that challenges prevalent misunderstandings about what martyrs are doing in sacrificing their lives. Joshua J. Whitfield argues that martyrdom is a moment of truthful disclosure and thus a moment of forgiveness and peace--gifts for which we are in desperate need.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2009
    ISBN9781630874568
    Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness
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    Joshua J. Whitfield

    Joshua J. Whitfield is an Anglican priest and rector of the Church of Saint Gregory the Great in Mansfield, Texas.

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