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John Frith
Scholar and Martyr

A Pond View Biography

Author: Brian Raynor

 ISBN: 1-871044-78-2 | Price: £19.95 | 176 pages | Paperback 

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John Frith was the first English martyr to be burnt for publishing Reformation doctrines, in a century when hundreds of Christians were being imprisoned, tortured, strangled, and burnt by other Christians who did not agree with their views. In challenging the Church's teaching on purgatory, for example, Frith was treading on dangerous ground, because, from that teaching, the Church created the fear that gave it power and control over people's lives, enabling the Church to amass great wealth.

The Author

Brian Raynor, M.A. Dip Ed., was, like John Frith, at King's College, Cambridge, and has lived for the last thirty years in the Sevenoaks area. He taught mathematics in Ghana for twelve years, before moving back to Kent, where he taught at Sevenoaks School for twenty-two years.

His interest in Frith began when, at Cambridge, he read in D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation about 'the mathematician from King's'. This interest was resurrected in 1971 when he became Frith housemaster at Sevenoaks School.

He has had several mathematics books and teachers' guides published.

Brian is now retired, and lives with his wife in Otford, Sevenoaks. His interests include, playing the piano and organ, singing, handbell ringing, bird-watching, and walking. He is also a Church of England Reader.

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