Christian mission : a concise global history /

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Author / Creator:Smither, Edward L., author.
Imprint:Bellingham, WA : Lexham Press, [2019]
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 202 pages) : maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12353101
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ISBN:1683592417
9781683592419
9781683592402
1683592409
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 26, 2019).
Summary:Who Were the Early Church Missionaries?; Anonymous Laborers; Bivocational Laborers; Church-Centered Laborers; Cross-Cultural Laborers; What Did the Early Church Missionaries Do?; Suffered; Evangelized; Contextualized; Translated the Bible; Ministered in Word and Deed; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Mission in the Medieval Church (750-1500); Western Europe; Dominicans; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Hamburg and Bremen Base; Norway, Finland, Greenland, and Iceland; Eastern Europe and Russia; Slavic Peoples; Russia; Middle East and North Africa; Timothy of Baghdad; Crusades; Franciscans
"Smither weaves together a ... 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"--Back cover.
Other form:Print version: Smither, Edward L. Christian Mission : A Concise, Global History. Ashland : Lexham Press, ©2019 9781683592402