The Man in the Fiery Furnace

By Freddie Sun

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970527608
• ISBN13: 9780970527608
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Sun Publications
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Freddie Sun, with Mark and Tamara Mulvahill, The Man in the

I should start by acknowledging my first-hand acquaintance with the author, for whom I have the greatest respect. It is hard for the average Christian to understand how the current flourishing Church in China (see the DVD series "The Cross in China") has emerged in a Communist state. We can understand the work of missionaries like Hudson Taylor and Gladys Aylward, and perhaps the contribution of martyrs like Watchman Nee, but how did the house churches, with their multitude of devotees, poured forth from the crucible of Chairman Mao and his successors? Freddie Sun's autobiography sheds important light on this subject. Accepting Christ as his Savior as a young man, Dr. Sun suffered censure and imprisonment under the Communists, but never renounced his faith. The Man in the Fiery Furnace is not only a first-hand account of the problems faced by a devout Chinese Christian during the Cultural Revolution, but a moving love story as well. (One hopes that in due course Dorothy Sun will produce her own autobiography.) Of the book's 199 pages, nine are devoted to some of the author's poetry (at pp-. [191]-99), while only seven pages (at pp. 180-86) cover his life in the United States since 1988. As Dr. Sun is still active as Director of Christian Aid's Chinese Division, it is hoped that when the political climate allows, he will produce a sequel on the breakout of Christianity in China over the last twenty years. Certainly few are as well-positioned to know the ins and outs of this groundswell for God. My only quibble with the present work concerns the cover illustration; I have yet to determine what seems to be an illustration of the Li River near Xingping has to do with the text. Samuel Pyeatt Menefee