First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 1st, 1999
A DIALOGUE OF COMFORT AGAINST TRIBULATION. By THOMAS MORE. Sceptre. 318 pp. $24.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. While awaiting his death in the Tower of London, More wrote this most unusual example of prison literature, a spiritual treatise peppered with comic stories about nagging wives and overscrupulous donkeys. The Dialogue begins with two Hungarians, the rich young Vincent and his wise uncle Anthony who is on his deathbed. Vincent is afraid of the oncoming Turkish army, and asks Anthony to give him advice to sustain him during the coming tribulations. In the ensuing conversation Anthony gives Vi...
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