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THE MISSIONARY LIFE IBD

ROUTLEDGE
01 / 2001
9780582312135
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Sinopsis

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 EuropeâÇÖs finest historians, leaving a detailed recordá of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. Anyone who has read Ian WoodâÇÖs equally ambitious and compelling surveyáThe Missionary Life, 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 account - giving a sense of the individual experience and collective ethos of the mission, the missionariesâÇÖ influence on communities and their links to the rest of Christendom.