Edition

1st ed.

Place of Publication

San Francisco CA

Publisher

HarperSanFrancisco

Publication Date

c1996

Physical Description

x, 328 p. ; 21.5 x 15 cm.

Material Type

Book : Cloth

Notes

"Edited by Susan Bergman".

"First edition". -- verso of t.-p.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Twentieth-Century Martyrs: A Meditation / Susan Bergman -- Aleksandr Menn: Russia, 1993: A Martyr Who Lives / Larry Woiwode -- Jesuit Priests: El Salvador, 1989: Hearing the Cry of the Poor / Ron Hansen -- Oscar Romero: El Salvador, 1980: Seed of Liberty, Sign of Hope / Carolyn Forche -- Janani Luwum: Uganda, 1977: Janani Leads Me to the Cross / Nancy Mairs -- Steven Biko: South Africa, 1977: A Bump on the Head / Paul Elie -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Tennessee, 1968: Martin Luther King and the Reinvention of Christianity in Modern America / Gerald Early -- The Mirabals: Dominican Republic, 1960: Chasing the Butterflies / Julia Alvarez -- Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully and Peter Fleming: Ecuador, 1956: A Cloud of Witnesses / Steve Saint -- Dietrch Bonhoeffer: Germany, 1945: Watching with Christ in Gethsemane / Marilynne Robinson -- Etty Hillesum: Poland, 1943: Outward from the Camps Themselves / Calvin Bedient -- Simone Weil: England, 1943: Love Made Me Welcome / Anthony Walton -- Edith Stein: Poland, 1942: A Book Sealed with Seven Seals / Patricia Hampl -- Maximilian Kolbe: Poland, 1941: 16670 / Paul Mariani -- Osip Mandelstam: Russia, 1938: M / Mark Rudman -- Patrick Pearse: Ireland, 1916: Poetry, the Body and Violence / Peggy O'Brien -- Charles de Foucauld: Algeria, 1916: Little Brother of Jesus / Robert Ellsberg -- Maria Goretti: Italy, 1902: Maria Goretti: Cipher or Saint ? / Kathleen Norris -- The Boxer Rebellion: China, 1900: Martyrs Among Us / Barbara Lazear Ascher -- Afterword: To Witness Truth Uncompromised / Dana Gioia -- About the Contributors.

Series

Contemporary writers on modern lives of faith

Added Entry

Bergman, Susan [author of memoir "Anonymity" and novel "The Buried Life"]

Subjects

Christian martyrs - Biography

Persecution - History - 20th century

Martyrdom (Christianity)

Martyrs - 20th century

Luwum, Janani, 1922-1977

Christian saints - 20th century

Christian saints - Anglican Communion

Menn, Aleksandr, 1935-1993

Martyrs - El Salvador

Romero, Oscar, 1917-1980

Biko, Steve (Stephen Bantu), 1946-1977

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Missionaries - Ecuador

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945

Hillesum, Etty, d. 1943

Weil, Simone, 1909-1943

Stein, Edith, 1891-1942

Kolbe, Maximilian, 1894-1941

Mandelstam, Osip, 1891-1938

Pearse, Patrick, d. 1916

de Foucauld, Charles, 1858-1916

Goretti, Maria, 1890-1902

Missionaries - China

ISBN

0-06-061120-0 (cloth)

Call Number

BR 1608.5 M38 1996

Location

Trinity College, Graham Library

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