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Persecution and the Christian are as inseparable as the cross and Christ. Yet, many Christians find it difficult to grapple with the history of persecution and martyrdom that has characterized the Church since her infancy. A selective reading of history might give the mistaken impression that each day brought the imminent threat of death or torture for members of the Early Church. On the other hand, some contemporary scholars treat persecution as a myth created by later generations. Thankfully, the scholarship of Herbert Workman dispels both these misconceptions. Workman draws on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, presenting a balanced picture of persecution from the days of the Apostles to the dawn of Christendom. But Workman is more than a scholar-he's a Christian, which means he leaves no room for the reader to approach persecution as a casual observer. He not only demonstrates what true faithfulness looked like in the past, but equips the reader to face the future with faith and courage.
- Sales Rank: #1694291 in Books
- Published on: 2014-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .68" w x 5.51" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 302 pages
About the Author
Herbert Brook Workman (1862-1951) was born in London and educated at Owens College, Manchester. He entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1885 and served as a circuit minister in England and Scotland until 1903 when he was appointed Principal of Westminster College. He was elected President of the Wesleyan Conference in 1930. A distinguished historian, Workman was Cole Lecturer at Vanderbilt University in 1916 and Visiting Professor of Methodist Church History at the University of Chicago in 1927. He published extensively in the field of medieval church history as well as Methodism. His other publications include 'The Dawn of the Reformation' 'The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal' 'Martyrs of the Early Church' 'Methodism' and 'The Age of Hus'
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great book, a solid and scholarly recounting of the ...
By Henry Milewski
Great book, a solid and scholarly recounting of the early centuries of Christian persecution. The last chapter is particularly good.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Read If You Want To Understand The World In Which We Live
By Jay
Incredible book. Originally published in 1906. Especially interesting were the political and sociological factors leading to persecution. I suspect that our right to free assembly is somewhat of a response to Roman legal opposition to any small social/religious/labor societies.
"A Christianity which had ceased to be aggressive would speedily have ceased to exist. Christ came not to send peace on earth but a sword; against the restless and resistless force of the new religion the gates of hell should not prevail. But polytheism could not be dethroned without a struggle; nor mankind regenerated without a baptism of blood. Persecution, in fact, is the other side of aggression, the inevitable outcome of a truly missionary spirit; the two are linked together as action and reaction." Herbert Workman, Persecution in the Early Church, p. 39. RVC Blog 11/4/14.
"But Julius Caesar, on political grounds, suppressed all sodalities except those of ancient origin, while Augustus placed all religious societies under the strictest control." p. 51.
"Christ could not be one among many; His claims rested upon higher grounds than senatorial allowance." p. 58
"Nor must we forget that the toleration of Rome, such as it was, was nearer akin to contempt and indifference. Now, the toleration which springs from contempt is often intensely intolerant of one thing, namely, of enthusiasm, using the word in a sense better understood and disliked in the eighteenth century than today." p. 59.
"A wise recognition of local usages was one thing, provided always that the interests of teh State were duly conserved; a toleration founded upon the claims of conscience and the rights of the individual soul was a matter too absurd even for philosophers to discuss." p. 60.
"By correct instinct, paganisms of all sorts discerned in the infant Church their only rival. So, while the new Hercules was yet in the cradle, they sent their snakes to kill him. But Hercules lived to cleanse out the Augean stalls." p. 66.
"The Christians, they said, reduce our deities to devils. 'They despise the temples as dead houses, they scorn the gods, they mock sacred things.' To this charge there was no possible answer, inasmuch as it was true; the glory and danger of the Christian faith." p. 69.
"And there is nothing so fated in the long run to all higher instincts and aspirations as the idolatry of success, whether in the form of a second-century emperor or a twentieth-century millionaire." p. 75.
"Even stalwarts must live, and to some extent conform to the usages of society. Where to draw the line was a matter of debate, upon which the Church was hopelessly divided. Then, as now, there were two parties; the one, which for lack of a better term we may call Puritan, making up for the fewness of its numbers by dogmatism and devotion; the other, probably more cultured, certainly more influential, but hampered by the lack of logic and utterance so generally characteristic of the via media." p. 126.
"We may dismiss at once the extremists of both types; those on the one hand whose laxity of conviction or conduct defended even attendance at the degrading public spectacles, quoting scripture to their purpose, and those who from extreme parousian standpoints made life of any sort practically impossible." p. 128.
"Purposeless renunciation, the renunciation of the dervish or fakir, can never appeal to the Western world. But the renunciation of the martyrs was neither purposeless nor self-centered. As their name shows, they were 'witnesses'; as the needle turns to the Pole, so they must point, not to themselves, but to another." pp 258-9.
"We need once more to catch the martyr-spirit, a belief in the absoluteness of the Christian faith translated into facts which shall make the Church 'a peculiar people,' whose strength does not lie in any blending of light and darkness, but in her renunciation of and aloofness from 'the world.'" p.161.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
he's not an especially perceptive reader because this work is stunningly timeless and useful. It is not a book of heroes and ...
By D. Bayly
Look, I don't know what book Mr. Jay who gave this book three stars read, but it wasn't Workman's. Perhaps Amazon aggregated a review from a different edition here, but Workman wrote this book before Russia and China went communist and there are no stories of heroic martyrdom here.Yet he has something of Workman's book in his review.... The first chapter is a legal analysis of the trial and crucifixion of Christ. Here again, however, the reviewer has it wrong. He argues from Jewish practice and law rather than Roman, and Workman's points are tied to Roman law. I suspect someone did a mashup of of Workman and something else, and that the reviewer read that work. Or else, he's not an especially perceptive reader because this work is stunningly timeless and useful.
It is not a book of heroes and martyrs. It is a book about the reasons the early Church was persecuted and the effect of Constantine's conversion on the Church. It does make one question the Faustian bargain Evangelicalism has made with civic religion in America, the effects of compromising with the state and seeking political power. Most of all, it poses the challenge of worshiping Jesus as Lord over all as the early Church did, and suffered for so doing.
I can't commend this book highly enough. It's an epiphanic, life-changing work. Stunning.
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