Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Tyndale House Pub (1978)
Description
The engrossing, moving biography of one of China's better-known Christians, the dedicated evangelist and gifted Bible teacher Watchman Nee.
User reviews
LibraryThing member lmathews
I didn't really like this biography on Watchman Nee. He lives an extraordinary life but I was expecting something different. The book was an easy read but rather boring at times. It was one of those books that I had to fight to finish b/c I wanted to move on after 50 pages.
LibraryThing member BethanyBible
Ever since his writings and the facts of his situation became widely known in the late 'fifties Watchman Nee has been for many in the West a symbol of Christian faithfulness under totalitarian pressure. Of his story, however, little has been made known, partly because his friends saw the need for
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the message of his books to stand on its merits unaided by emotional appeal to his sufferings, and partly from fear of People's Government retaliation upon him and those Christian leaders of his generation still living. But meanwhile the information vacuum began to be filled with a Nee mythology of torture and mutilation and of "prison epistles" smuggled out by converted warders who, when executed for this, were at once replaced by more warders bearing out further Christian messages from his prolific pen. In fact, however, aside from one or two brief thank-you letters, no significant writing by Watchman Nee dating from after his imprisonment in 1952 is known to exist. It is a most reviving story in which Nee's significance as a spiritual pioneer shines out. The account of this man's spiritual pilgrimage is a major contribution to the annals of the defiant Christian faith. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1973
Physical description
7 inches
ISBN
0842300457 / 9780842300452
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