Faith That Endures: The Essential Guide to the Persecuted Church

click here for more details, find new or used items	Ronald Boyd-MacMillan Used from £1.50 Pages: 368 (Paperback) ISBN: 0800731190 Pub: Revell Pub date: 2006-08-31 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 637441

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This book was published in 2006 and is the best up to date introduction to the persecuted church.

The UK and US editions have different pictures on the cover. The UK cover shows a candle with a crown of thorns. The US edition shows a candle held by hands. According to the author, the books are otherwise the same.

There are many books which concentrate on individual cases of imprisonment, torture and martyrdom, such as Richard Wurmbrand and Brother Yun. These are essential reading for those who wish to know about those cases and be inspired by them. Other books concentrate on specific countries or parts of the world, such as the Dalits in India.

But as a representative for Christian Solidarity Worldwide, I find that this is the only book which covers whe whole subject of the persecuted church, and it manages to do so in a highly readable manner. Boyd-MacMillan writes from first hand experience of the church in every continent of the world in an engaging, readable manner that is as informative about the dynamics of modern world politics as it is about the costly nature of Christian witness on the front line. It explains what persecution means and what it does not, its place in history and in our world today.

Right from the first chapter, which offers a surprising new perspective on the place of Mao Tse Tung in history, I found this to be an excellent book which was hard to put down.

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