Would you die for the privilege of proclaiming Christ?
For two thousand years, Christians have courageously faced beatings, stonings, torture, burnings, wild beasts, and every form of evil for boldly proclaiming the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Written in modernized English, this all-new edition includes the stories of more than 100 Christian martyrs not included in John Foxe's original work, published in 1570. It includes heroes from the Early Church to the Reformation with Christians in the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the twenty-first century.
John Foxe, martyrologist, is remembered as the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, an account of Christian martyrs throughout history but especially emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I.
Foxe's prospects, and those of the evangelical cause generally, improved after the death of Henry VIII in January 1547, the accession of Edward VI, and the formation of a Privy Council dominated by pro-reform Protestants.
Although both he and his contemporary readers were more credulous than most moderns, Foxe presented "lifelike and vivid pictures of the manners and feelings of the day, full of details that could never have been invented by a forger." Foxe's method of using his sources "proclaims the honest man, the sincere seeker after truth."
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