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Summary: The greatest story in English History
Review: This book is pure history and is very controversial. There was a time when every home had this book along with The Bible. This book had a great influence on the English people for centuries. Much of the history covered here are events during the reign of Bloody Mary I. After the Reformation many kings and queens had a violent backlash against the people they believed a threat to their power. The printing press was a hated invention and owning a Bible was a death sentence because people for the first time in certuries people could begin to think for themselves.This is also a very hated book. It would be very easy to dismiss the events here to prejudice and propoganda but it should be kept to mind that the historic record does show 300 men and women were burned to death because of the Inquistion brought by Mary to England. This book was a warning to people of the things that could happen under a Catholic monarch. The distrust of Catholics would continue for hundreds of years. With this book came the end of burning heretics at the stake in England. The horror of this book may have showed the common man how wrong it was to be so cruel to his fellow man. It is a monument in English Literature and one of the earliest works of modern English. I loved every page.
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Summary: A wonderful collection
Review: This book is the ultimate collection of the truth behind intolerance towards Christians and protestants in particular. Throughly updated and revised it bring the persecution of Christianity through 2002, so that you will see for yourself the more then 500 years of persecution and murder that has been done against Christians. In normal books one reads that Christians were the ones hurting and suppressing others but this book makes plain the truth, the truth that honest peaceful Christians are the victims of intolerance all over the world from Pakistan to the Sudan to Nigeria to India and beyond. Everywhere lone Christians are under assault and this book catalogs but a small portion of the incidents. From the beating and burning to death of a Christian woman in the Sudan to the raids by armed mobs on Christian youth camps in Indonesia this book is a wonderful collection. A must read for anyone interested in the present state of christianity in the world.
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Summary: A wonderful collection
Review: This book is the ultimate collection of the truth behind intolerance towards Christians and protestants in particular. Throughly updated and revised it bring the persecution of Christianity through 2002, so that you will see for yourself the more then 500 years of persecution and murder that has been done against Christians. In normal books one reads that Christians were the ones hurting and suppressing others but this book makes plain the truth, the truth that honest peaceful Christians are the victims of intolerance all over the world from Pakistan to the Sudan to Nigeria to India and beyond. Everywhere lone Christians are under assault and this book catalogs but a small portion of the incidents. From the beating and burning to death of a Christian woman in the Sudan to the raids by armed mobs on Christian youth camps in Indonesia this book is a wonderful collection. A must read for anyone interested in the present state of christianity in the world.
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Summary: Don't Be Misled - This is NOT Foxe's work!
Review: This book is to Foxe's original work as a pocket dictionary is to a full size, complete Webster's (the kind that requires a stand). Foxe's original work is nearly 7.000 pages in eight volumes! But the really sad thing is that this particular edition has been so carelessly edited, rewritten, and corrupted. There is even a chapter about John Calvin, whom FOXE NEVER WROTE ABOUT! All the Catholic/Protestant quibbling about Foxe's book is pathetically stupid, especially between people who've never even laid eyes upon the complete work. Besides, the REAL church was started over two hundred fifty years before Rome laid claim to Christianity -- and the first Christian church building was erected in England within three years of the crucifixion. So true Christianity is neither Catholic (never was) NOR Protestant (having never been Catholic, there was nothing for REAL Christians to protest except the way they were treated by both groups). The truth is that Foxe accurately chronicled Roman Catholic atrocities of his time, but he also wrote in support of the Reformed (Protestant) church which used very similar tactics. He also reached some incorrect conclusions, for which he can easily be forgiven, since they are not central to his work and he did not have the research tools we have available today. But the real point is that THIS BOOK IS NOT FOXE'S WORK and bears almost no resemblance to it. If you are interested in obtaining a a reprint of the REAL Foxe work, contact swrb(dot)com on the world wide web -- select "Rare Bound Photocopies" then look under "F" for Foxe's work. I am not necessarily endorsing any of the other works they sell, but they are the only current source I know for the complete Foxe work. Any Christian foolish enough to think they've read "Foxe's Book of Martyrs" after reading the Thomas Nelson edition (or most other "modern" versions) is probably unlearned enough to call himself Catholic or Protestant.
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Summary: Should be passed out at churches
Review: This book should be read by everyone who calls themselves "Christian."Anytime I get to feeling life is too tough,and I start feeling like God isn't close,this book and the book of Job are the books to get me back to reality.When you read the book of martyrs and you read the horrible ways these Christians were tortured and killed you realize you have no reason to complain and every reason to be thankful.Thankful not only to Jesus Christ and the apostles, but to the Christians all over the world who are being killed every day for the Gospel.If you have ever wondered how the apostles died, this book tells you.Incidentally, John was the only apostle who died of old age.Humbling and educational
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Summary: Should be passed out at churches
Review: This book should be read by everyone who calls themselves "Christian."Anytime I get to feeling life is too tough,and I start feeling like God isn't close,this book and the book of Job are the books to get me back to reality.When you read the book of martyrs and you read the horrible ways these Christians were tortured and killed you realize you have no reason to complain and every reason to be thankful.Thankful not only to Jesus Christ and the apostles, but to the Christians all over the world who are being killed every day for the Gospel.If you have ever wondered how the apostles died, this book tells you.Incidentally, John was the only apostle who died of old age.Humbling and educational
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Summary: This book is a must read for any Reformation Protestant.
Review: This is the best book that I have ever read. Every Christian must read it. You will be encouraged by the brave Christians who suffered under pagan and Papal Rome.
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Summary: Classic exposure of Catholicism's persecution of the Gospel
Review: This shows all the persecutions in England as the Catholic Church persecuted and burned those who dared believe the Bible for their doctrine. The powerful Church/State mostly burned the Bible believers as the law was that you could not shed blood. The actions were unconscieniable, even to the point of cutting open pregnant "Protestants" and forcing the family to watch. The new persecutions strangely did not mention any modern day Catholic persecution although I am aware of many persecutions in Mexico and I am sure there are many elsewhere. This is the one big dissappointment in this book.
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Summary: A Worthless and Deceptive (...)!
Review: This volume has no value save to render suspect any historical work published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. How sad to see an old and respected company abandon any semblance of literary and historical scruples. A horrendous disfigurement of Foxe's historical work, this book lists no editor -- and after examining the contents, the reason seems obvious -- no person could claim responsibility without sacrificing their reputation. A complete abomination! Consider: Not only has much of John Foxe's wonderful work been stripped from this edition, but what remains has been largely mangled and diluted. Unproven stories, widely known as fable and/or tradition, have been inserted and presented as Foxe's writing (or even worse, as historical facts) with no disclaimers. What little footnoting appears is mere window dressing, as most quotes and "facts" are completely undocumented. No bibliography; no index. Interpolation runs rampant throughout the volume, the most notable example being the grafting-in of an entire chapter that Foxe did not write! (A queer apologetic essay on John Calvin -- apparently an editorial stratagem) Find a good used (preferably older) version -- this is garbage.
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Summary: Not for Christians
Review: This work celebrates Albigensian "martyrs". Albigensians were not Christians, but gnostics who believed that matter was evil, every form of perversion was acceptable (as the body is evil), and that suicide is the highest sacrament as it frees a soul from the wicked body. This disqualifies the book for any Christian.
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