To the Martyrs
Subtitle: A Reflection on the Supreme Christian Witness
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Published: November 12, 2015
Place of publication: Steubenville, Ohio, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781941447390
Description: In many societies today, the utterance of a simple phrase, "I am a Christian," is a crime punishable by death. So widespread is this persecution that Pope Francis called it a "third world war, waged piecemeal …a form of genocide." In To the Martyrs: A Reflection on the Supreme Christian Witness, Cardinal Donald Wuerl urges solidarity with today's persecuted Christians and recounts the recurrence of martyrdom throughout Church history. His Eminence's poignant insight into the spirituality of martyrdom will challenge all Christians to courageously emulate the steadfast commitment of those who have followed Christ—even unto death.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; label: Introduction
title: The Crime Called Christianity; label: Chapter 1
title: The Supreme Testimony; label: Chapter 2
title: Israel and the Inevitability of Persecution; label: Chapter 3
title: "You Shall Be My Witnesses": Martyrdom in the New Testament; label: Chapter 4
title: Blood is Seed: The Martyrs of the Roman Era; label: Chapter 5
title: Not to the Lions, But to the Margins: The Case of Julian the Apostate; label: Chapter 6
title: Death and Dhimmitude: The Aftermath of the Arab Invasion; label: Chapter 7
title: The First Police State and the Martyrs It Made; label: Chapter 8
title: The Martyrs of Secular "Enlightenment": The Example of the French Revolution; label: Chapter 9
title: A Century of Slaughter; label: Chapter 10
title: The Amphitheater of YouTube: Martyrdom in Our Media Age; label: Chapter 11
title: Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice; label: Chapter 12
title: Martyrdom and the Eucharist; label: Chapter 13
title: The Ecumenism of Blood; title: Postscript; title: Works Consulted