This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and accommodated the needs of local agents rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion.\nBringing together some of the...
four mass executions had around fifty victims.Footnote10In the ten-year period, an estimated total of 703 Christians were put to death, including twenty-six Europeans.Footnote11Moreover, in 1614 the local authorities expelled approximately 350 missionaries, local clergy, and influential Japanese Chris...
Not only is it possible, it will become a painful reality unless deliberate steps are taken to avoid this peril. One of the enduring misconceptions about missionaries is that they are super-saints, entirely immune from the doubts, temptations, fears, struggles, and sins that plague everyone else...
While some years back missionaries used to be foreigners from abroad, having native missionaries is becoming more popular. This involves getting locals to become ministers of the gospel in their own country. Using indigenous missionaries have many advantages, including preventing culture shock because pe...
There was real iron in him, and I always felt he was of the stuff martyrs were made of, and heroic missionaries of more modern times. ccineurope.org 我总觉得古代的殉道勇 士,以及现代的宣教英雄,就该是 像他 一样 的人。 ccineurope.org The suffering of the Palestinians and the predicam...
we can consider Arabic language printing in premodern Italy. In 2021, I acquired an Italian primer to train missionaries in Arabic, printed in Rome in the 1630s. I purchased this as a way to expand our collection of Italian books and intertwine them with our existing collections. This prime...
considering that it was banned or at least discouraged by the Catholic church.Footnote4The Jesuit response to Hideyoshi was guarded, stressing that this was a matter for Christian believers to decide themselves. The missionaries replied that ‘Europeans did not follow the custom of eating the meat...
The Foundation combated yellow fever and tropical African diseases. In China it established Peking Union Medical College to spread knowledge of medicine and sanitation, conduct research, and support the medical activities of Western missionaries. In addition, Carnegie's associate Henry Phipps in 1908 ...
“asked” to serve in a proselyting mission. With the changes in status and respect of those serving service missions. Look for an increase in breadth of service missions. Rumors are that the church is going to shift to having fewer proselyting missionaries, and might even go back to the...
Letters and reports from Jesuit missionaries about translation po- licy, censorship, and cultural accommodation are analysed alongside printed Ja- panese translations of Thomas à Kempis' popular devotional book Contemptus mundi. In the article by Víctor de Castro León and Alberto Tiburcio the ...