Unto Death: Martyrdom, Missions, and the Maturity of the Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unto Death: Martyrdom, Missions, and the Maturity of the Church write by Dalton Thomas. This book was released on 2012-06. Unto Death: Martyrdom, Missions, and the Maturity of the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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,
Christian Martyrdom
Christian Martyrdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Martyrdom write by Edward L. Smither. This book was released on 2020-02-27. Christian Martyrdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Suffering and Martyrdom in the New Testament
Suffering and Martyrdom in the New Testament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suffering and Martyrdom in the New Testament write by William Horbury. This book was released on 1981. Suffering and Martyrdom in the New Testament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Salvation in the Gospel of Mark
Salvation in the Gospel of Mark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salvation in the Gospel of Mark write by Gabi Markusse. This book was released on 2018-06-28. Salvation in the Gospel of Mark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Spiritualiity of Martyrdom
The Spiritualiity of Martyrdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spiritualiity of Martyrdom write by Servais Pinckaers. This book was released on 2016-05-06. The Spiritualiity of Martyrdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
