Methods of early Christian missionary work . from their belts. For some reason the early history of Christianmissions has been neglected. There are many biographiesof individual workers, but hitherto, no adequate studyhas been made of their methods. No comparisons have beendrawn between the work of the missionaries in England,and of those in Germany; no contrasts between the valueof the approach of St. Augustine as compared to the ap-proach of St. Patrick. No one has attempted to answer,why two thousand years have passed and such little changehas occurred in the missionary practices of the Chr
Methods of early Christian missionary work . from their belts. For some reason the early history of Christianmissions has been neglected. There are many biographiesof individual workers, but hitherto, no adequate studyhas been made of their methods. No comparisons have beendrawn between the work of the missionaries in England,and of those in Germany; no contrasts between the valueof the approach of St. Augustine as compared to the ap-proach of St. Patrick. No one has attempted to answer,why two thousand years have passed and such little changehas occurred in the missionary practices of the ChristianChurch. This, I believe, is in part answered here* Because of the immensity of the field, Ihave limited myself to the years 300 to 900, and haveattecipted to consider the work of only a few of thosewho have gone out in mission service, basing my study onwork done from Ireland and Rome. I have not attempted toexhaust the subject of methods used by the early chief aim has been to open up a field for future -£- After I had begun this investigation, my attention was oalled to the work of Mr, Wilhelm Konenit of Dusseldorf, Germany, who is writing a book, entitled Uber die Methoden der Germanenoekehrung, one chapter it of which on Die Heidenpredigt in der Germanenbekehrung,having come out in 1909. Mr. Konen has limited his fieldto Germany, and is considering the methods of themissionaries whose work resulted in the Christianizationof that people. In the work which I have taken up, the materialto he found is unlimited when one considers the volumesof Migne, the Acta Sanctorum, the Rolls Series, theEcclesiastical Histories, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, andthe hundreds of lesser sources. To really cover thistopic, every missionarys life ought to he a study has here been impossible, for to do this wouldrequire the ability to read readily German, French, andLatin,which The writer cannot do; and more than This, theaim of the paper does n
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