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 / edited by G. J. Cuming.
Series: Studies in church history ; 6.Publication details: Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) : Cambridge University Press, c1970.Description: 170 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780521077521
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BSOP Library | GC | BR141 M69 1970 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | v.VI | Available | 00058006 |
Includes bibliographical references.
The mission of SS. Cyril and Methodios and its aftermath in Central Europe / A.P. Vlasto -- The shadow of the Christian symbol / L.G.D. Baker -- Gregory the Great and a papal missionary strategy / R.A.Markus -- St Columban: monk or missionary? / G.S.M. Walker -- St Boniface and the German mission / C.H. Talbot -- The missionary at home: the Church in the towns, 1000-1250 (Presidential address) / C.N.L. Brooke -- The problem of the native clergy in the Portuguese and Spanish Empires from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries / C.R. Boxer -- A Christian experiment: the early Sierra Leone colony / A.F. Walls -- The selection and training of missionaries in the early nineteenth century / P. Hinchliff -- The Church's response to the cholera outbreak of 1866 / G. Huelin -- The history of missions: an academic discipline / S.C. Neill.
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.
