On the Trail of the Cambridge Reformation Martyrs: David Llewellyn Jenkins, Whither God Brings Us: Cambridge and the Reformation Martyrs

David Llewellyn Jenkins’ Whither God Brings Us is a book very much in the mould of J. C. Ryle’s Five English Reformers. Like Ryle it focusses on martyrs of the English Reformation, drawing openly and copiously on John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Moreover, like Ryle’s work it is also written from an unashamedly Protestant and evangelical perspective. Written perhaps more for an interested lay audience than a specifically academic one, Jenkins presents the story of twenty-two Cambridge scholars who were martyred in the reign of King Henry VIII and Queen Mary. While their trials and martyrdom are obviously a central connecting theme, the book offers a wider narrative of their lives and of course their education.