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The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith G. J. Cuming

The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith By G. J. Cuming

The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith by G. J. Cuming

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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.

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The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith: Papers read at the Seventh Summer Meeting and the Eighth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society by G. J. Cuming

The Ecclesiastical History Society devoted two meetings to the topical theme of 'The Mission of the Church' and this sixth volume of Studies in Church History contains eleven papers on widely varying aspects of the subject. 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.

Table of Contents

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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NLS9780521101790
9780521101790
0521101794
The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith: Papers read at the Seventh Summer Meeting and the Eighth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society by G. J. Cuming
G. J. Cuming
Studies in Church History
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Cambridge University Press
2008-12-18
180
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