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“Moral and religious authority will always tip toward the blood of the martyrs, and military service is the only martyrological option available to Americans…In America, the weight of blood tips the scales of sacred authority toward the state and away from the church. The nation state is elevated above the church by the sacred authority…
I’m still reading The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom by Tripp York. I’m slowly reading through chapter 2, Body: The Field of Combat. In this chapter York attempts to “examine how the early church attempted to reconfigure the body to better perform its doxological role. York says that the “the shaping of the body…
The day of their victory dawned, and the martyrs went from the prison to the amphitheatre as if they were on their way to heaven. Their faces were radiant; they were beautiful. They were moved, not by fear but by joy. Perpetua followed at a gentle pace, as a great lady of Christ, as the…
I’m about two pages into the forward of Tripp York’s book The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom and I now know that I was right to be excited about finally getting it in the mail yesterday. This from the forward by John D. Roth Through their patient, nonviolent suffering, Christian martyrs expose the futility…