Shadow of the Almighty : the life & testament of Jim Elliot / Elisabeth Elliot. [print]

Part I. Portland, Oregon, 1927-1945. Strong roots -- Orator and garbage collector

Part II. Wheaton, Illinois, 1945-1949. Degree of A.U.G. -- Straight for the goal -- Flame of fire -- Behold obscurity -- Wine of bewilderment -- Sheep destined for the alter -- Goaded by God -- The renaissance

Part III. Portland -- Oklahoma -- Wisconsin -- Indiana -- Illinois -- Portland, 1949-1952. The test of free time -- The test of service -- Impelled by these voices -- The pattern tested -- Hemmed in to nothing -- Exactly timed for God -- The hand is on the plough

Part IV. Ecuador, 1952-1956. Under way -- Dreams are tawdry -- The realized will -- Three challenges to faith -- Lo, this is our God -- The pattern at work -- Mission accomplished.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." So wrote Jim Elliot at age 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College. "Seven years later," writes his widow, "he and four other young men . . . sat together on a strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuador's rain forest, waiting for the arrival of a group of men whom they loved, but had never met - savage Stone Age killers, men known to all the world now as Aucas." The circumstances of these men's death are known throughout the world in one of the great missionary adventure stories of modern times. But this is the first account of the whole life of one of them - a life that, though "hid with Christ in God," was in part revealed in some of the most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time. Using these rich journals to the full, his widow has selected the most powerful, revealing passages and woven the story of his life around them. Shadow of the Almighty is a tremendous biography of an adventurous life and is also exceptional devotional literature. Jim Elliot's life and testament may well be counted among those truly great Christian writings that will endure. Publisher's site

Biography of a young missionary killed by Auca Indians of Ecuador in 1956.

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