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Christians and Tyrants: The Prison Testimonies of Boethius, Thomas More and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christians and Tyrants: The Prison Testimonies of Boethius, Thomas More and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Scott, Jamie S.
Wiebe, Donald

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Studies in Religion, Book 19

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0820422746
ISBN13: 9780820422749
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jun 1 1995
Pages: 280
Language: English
Conflict between religion and politics often results in a paradigm shift in cultural history. In turn, such paradigm shifts in the history of religion invariably produce martyrs. As Christianity moves from the classical to the medieval world, from the medieval to the modern, and from the modern to the postmodern, Boethius, Thomas More, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer find themselves caught amidst competing claims upon their religious and political allegiances. Imprisoned and executed by the tyrants Theodoric, Henry VIII, and Adolf Hitler, these figures explore their religious and political marginalization in the prison writings, The Consolation of Philosophy, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, and Letters and Papers from Prison. Using a variety of disciplinary methods, this study sheds new light on our understanding of martyrdom and the theory and practice of Christian testimony as both a literal act of self-sacrifice and a literary act of self-justification.

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