Furnace of the Lord

by Elisabeth Elliot

  • Year 1969
  • Type Book
  • Genre spiritual memoir
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For readers interested in Christian reflection on Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the late 1960s; not a guidebook and not a political history.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

Her reflections on Jerusalem after a visit to Israel three months after the 1967 war, drawing on the people she met there.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 3 of 5
  • Historical 4 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Furnace of the Lord: Reflections on the Redemption of the Holy City (Doubleday, 1969) records Elisabeth Elliot's visit to Israel three months after the Six-Day War of 1967. She reflects on Jerusalem and its meaning, drawing on conversations with people she met there, and moves from the city as she saw it toward a wider view of its place in God's purposes. The Foundation describes it as a book of her reflections on that journey; it is now out of print and available from the Foundation as an audiobook.

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Catalog IDW.BJH86N.R

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