A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation

Name: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation
Author: St. Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) was an English lawyer, statesman, and Renaissance humanist who served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. He resigned rather than accept the king's break with Rome and was executed for treason in 1535. His Latin work Utopia (1516) imagines an ideal island commonwealth, while A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, written in the Tower of London, counsels Christians facing persecution.

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First published: 1534
Category: Devotional
Length: 104k words · about 7 hours
Chapters: 68
Modernized version: In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 87% of the original wording.
Narration: 🎧 Fable · British English

About this book

Thomas More's dialogue on finding comfort in tribulation, written in 1534 while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. In conversation form, More considers suffering, persecution, and the fear of death, drawing on Scripture and the example of Christ's passion. Composed under sentence of death, it is a serene and often gently humorous testament of faith under trial.