Word: martyrdoms
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...plot concerns a convent of French nuns on the eve of the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The protagonist, Blanche de la Force (Kathy D. Gerlach ’07), struggles with her beliefs, her fellow sisters, her martyrdom, and the impending fate that awaits her and the rest of the Carmelites, as they are sentenced to death in the name of the Republic...
...DHO’s production implies that there is no higher power watching over the characters; the only redeeming note of the story, when Blanche meets Sister Constance at the scaffold to die with her, is portrayed as a small triumph of human compassion, not one of divinely inspired martyrdom...
...killings might well have fed the missionary impulse by itself. ?It brought [modern day] martyrdom alive,? says Scott Moreau, a professor of missiology at Wheaton College. ?It made it real.? But, in fact, two accelerants came into play. The first magnifier was a favorable story in LIFE magazine about the deaths with photos by a well-known war photographer, Cornell Capa. (The killings were also covered by TIME (You may note that in the archive article this tribe is referred to as Aucas). At that point, says Moreau, evangelicalism, which had only recently begun to separate from a more hard...
...second had to do with the martyrdom?s sequel. In a breathtaking gesture, several of the dead men?s widows befriended and lived among the Waodani, and the tribe eventually converted to Christianity. One of the wives, Elisabeth Elliot, wrote about it eloquently in ?Through Gates of Splendor, ? which became a Christian classic. In combination, says Jonathan Bonk, director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, the event, the event, coverage and aftermath ?absolutely galvanized? a generation of young evangelicals. LIFE continued to revisit the story for years...
...week, Perry attended End of the Spear on its opening weekend. She had received her tickets as a gift from a friend who bought a block of 20 back in December by signing up at the film?s website. Perry found the film moving. ?We see the horror of martyrdom and the victimization of people, but also the redemption? that followed, she says. ?The idea that the five young couples, and then the [widows] could bring their children to such a dangerous place, is very counter-cultural in a society where we?re into guarding our kids from everything...