Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith - Papers Read At Seventh Summer Meeting Eighth Winter Meeting of

Klappentext The volume concludes with a masterly survey of the literature of missionary history by Bishop Neill. Zusammenfassung The theme of foreign missions is comprehensively examined! with papers on both the conversion of Europe and the missions to Asia and Africa. A later development considered if the missionary situation facing the church at home after the Industrial Revolution. The volume concludes with a masterly survey of the literature of missionary history by Bishop Neill. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Contributors; 1. The mission of S.S. Cyril and Methodios and its aftermath in Central Europe A. P. Vlasto; 2. The shadow of the Christian symbol L. G. D. Baker; 3. Gregory the Great and a papal missionary strategy R. A. Markus; 4. St Columban: monk or missionary The late G. S. M. Walker; 5. St Boniface and the German mission C. H. Talbot; 6. The missionary at home: the Church in the towns 1000-1250 C. N. L. Brooke; 7. The problem of the native clergy in the Portuguese and Spanish empires from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries C. R. Boxer; 8. A Christian experiment: the early Sierra Leone colony A. F. Walls; 9. The selection and training of missionaries in the early nineteenth century Peter Hinchcliff; 10. The Church's response to the cholera outbreak of 1866 G. Huelin; 11. The history of missions: an academic discipline S. C. Neill

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• Autori: G. J. Cuming, G.j. Cuming
• Con la collaborazione di: G. J. Cuming (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521101790
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10179-0
• Pagine: 180
• Serie: Studies in Church History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni