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Cloud of Witnesses

by · 1991

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Introduces a company of modern witnesses—saints, peacemakers, and martyrs who have embodied the gospel challenge our time: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer, martyr to the Nazis to Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk and prophet of peace: to Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others, from around the world.

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adult
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medium · 292 pages

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