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Author: Richard Eugene Sullivan
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains six essays dealing with various aspects of Christian expansion and missionary activity during the Early Middle Ages (circa 500 to 900). Among the themes treated here are missionary methods, the role of the papacy in the expansion of Christianity, the impact of paganism and more.
Author: James Thayer Addison
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-01-05
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1606083732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is No. II in the Studies in the World Mission of Christianity Series. Through this book we can see the modern missionary enterprise against the background from the perspective of the missions of earlier centuries. Between the missions of which Professor Addison writes those of the last century and a half many striking contrasts exist which inevitably raise questions concerning the infallibility of those which have been pursued in our age. Contents: Education the Motives of Medieval Missionaries; Kings Missionaries; Missions Monasticism Influence of the Papacy; Missionary Message.
Author: Edward L. Smither
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-12-02
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1498224172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMissionaries go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, while monks live cloistered in a monastery and focus their lives on prayer and studying Scripture--correct? Not exactly. When we study the history of Christian mission, especially from around 500 to 1500 CE, the key missionaries that we constantly encounter are monks. In fact, if we don't have monks in this period then we have very little in the way of Christian mission. Our aim in this book is to examine the phenomenon of missionary monks--those who pursued both a monastic and missionary calling. We will meet the monks and monastic orders, narrate their journeys in mission, and evaluate their approaches to and thoughts about mission.
Author: James D. Ryan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1351881590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants’ sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe’s cultural frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches of Asia. Their incredible journeys were reminiscent of heroic missionary ventures in earlier eras and far more exotic than evangelization during the tenth through twelfth centuries, when the western church Christianized Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. This new mission effort was stimulated by a variety of factors and facilitated by the establishment of the Mongol Empire, and, as the fourteenth century dawned, missionaries entertained fervent but vain hopes of success within khanates in China, Central Asia, Persia and Kipchak. The reports these missionaries sent back to Europe have fascinated successive generations of historians who analyzed their travels and struggled to understand their motives and aspirations. The essays selected for this volume, drawn from a range of twentieth-century historians and contextualized in the introduction, provide a comprehensive overview of missionary efforts in Asia, and of the developments in the secular world that both made them possible and encouraged the missionaries’ hopes for success. Three of the studies have been translated from French specially for publication in this volume.
Author: James C. Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0195104668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses German influence on the development of early medieval Christianity.
Author: Edward L. Smither
Publisher: Lexham Press
Published: 2019-03-06
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1683592417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deeper understanding of the grand history of mission leads to a faithful expression of God's mission today. From the beginning, God's mission has been carried out by people sent around the world. From Abraham to Jesus, the thread that weaves its way throughout Scripture is a God who sends his people across the world, proclaiming his kingdom. As the world has evolved, Christian mission continues to be a foundational tradition in the church. In this one-volume textbook, Edward Smither weaves together a comprehensive history of Christian mission, from the apostles to the modern church. In each era, he focuses on the people sent by God to the ends of the earth, while also describing the cultural context they encountered. Smither highlights the continuity and development across thousands of years of global mission.
Author: Ian N. Wood
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKEY BENEFIT The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Tribal and nomadic societies were propelled out of the forest and the plain into a 'civilized' world that carried the genes of the Roman imperial past. The missionaries were crucial too, because of the record they and their correspondents left of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. The missionaries were not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's first historians. Anyone who has read Ian Wood's equally ambitious and compelling survey The Merovingian Kingdoms, 451-1050 , will rediscover his ability to bring a remote age to life. Here, the unreliable history of the missionary life is disentangled by Ian Wood to produce a uniquely wide-ranging account - giving a sense of the individual experience and collective ethos of the mission, the missionaries' influence on communities and their links to the rest of Christendom. In the Missionary Life the roles and aims of the missionaries, provide a starting point for the history of early medieval Europe. While spiritualism is examined Ian Wood also focuses on the darker side of missionary life - flagellation, starvation, torture - as well as sanctity. Contemporary willing and unwilling evangelism relates to some of these first Christian pioneers. For reader interested in medieval and/or church history. Also available in hardcover, 0-582-31212-4, $ 69.95Y.
Author: Roy Flechner
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503554624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume II : "This volume analyses the effects of religious conversion on landscapes of cult and on religious practice in Europe, focusing in particular on Britain and Ireland. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the volume investigates the interaction between different forms of belief, their coexistence and competition. It discusses the coming of writing, the power of the word, landscapes of ritual, and converting communities. The contributors include leading historians, archaeologists, linguists, and literary scholars. This is the second volume to emerge from research undertaken by contributors to the Converting the Isles Research Network and forms a companion volume to The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World."--
Author: Fernanda Alfieri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-03-08
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 3110643979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).
Author: Christopher Dawson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780802064363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreviously published as The Mongol Mission by Sheed and Ward, Ltd., 1980.
