Description for The Missionary Life
Paperback. A wide-ranging account of missionary life, this text gives 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. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; HBLA; HBLC; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
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. Not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's finest historians, leaving a detailed record of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. 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. The unreliable history of the missionary life is disentangled to produce a uniquely wide-ranging ... Read more
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. Not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's finest historians, leaving a detailed record of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. 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. The unreliable history of the missionary life is disentangled to produce a uniquely wide-ranging ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Routledge
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780582312135
SKU
V9780582312135
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99-1
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