Biographical studies of missionary_Early Missions and Evangelism

 

Early Missions and Evangelism

 

 

Agents of the Gospel in the Early Ch

 

 

Characteristics of the early Christianity

• Urban than rural
• Women than men
• Individualistic
• Ascetic
• Monastic
• Power encounter

 

1Thes 1:5 in word ………. In power ………..in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction

 

Gospel Encounter

Truth encounter

 

Power encounter

 

 

Gospel Message in the Early Church

• Jesus is the Christ
• The Word became flesh!

 

 

Gospel agent in the early Church

• Martyrs

• Apologists

• Unknown Christians

 

 

Witnesses via Martyrdom

• Ignatius of Antioch d.117
• Polycarp of Smyrna d. 155

• Perpetual d. 203 (Roman Noble woman)

 

Epistle to Diognetus 5(AD 3)

 

 

 

Mission Paradigm of Early Ch

Early Ch I (AD 30-313)

Witnessing through dying

 

II (AD 313-500)

Witnessing through living

-Mission and lifestyle

 

(World Christian Trends data)

 

Tertullian

"the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church"

 

 

Constantine

Religio licita ("permitted religion," also translated as "approved religion")

 

Formation of Christian Empire

• Conversion of Constantine (313)
• Edict of Milan (313)

• Church Councils (325, 381, 431, 451) defined what is truly Christian faith

• Barbarian Invasions (410)

• Decline of the Empire

 

Formation of Christendom

 

 

 

 

Late Medieval Period

St. Francis

St. Bonaventure, Life of Saint Francis of Assisi

 

Raymond Lull (1232-1315)

 

http://www.Answering-islam.org/books/Zwemer/Lull

 

Pax Mongolia (13c)

Franciscan and Dominican

 

William of Rubruck(1220-1293)

 

• Rubruck's description on Nestorians

• Rubruck and Korea (Cauli)

 

John of Montecorvino (1246-1330)

 

 

 

• 1st Catholic missionary who arrived in China

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odoric of Pordenone (1265-1331)

 

Bartolome de las Casas(1484-1566)