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Short History of Christian Missions: From Abraham and Paul to Carey, Livingstone, and Duff

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Description:Excerpt: ...to become the missionaries of Christ and Christian civilisation to the nations. The nineteenth century has become the missionary century, and English-speaking men and women of Great Britain and America, aided by their German cousins in lands under British influence, are its missionaries. John Wiclif (1320-1384) has a distinctly missionary interest not merely as the Morning Star of the Reformation. By his Yorkshire descent we might consider him the representative, as he was the successor, of the Scots missionaries sent by Columba into Northumbria, which they evangelized from Aidan's school of Lindisfarne. But historically he taught a purer gospel than even Luther long after him, especially against the subtler forms of the heresy of transubstantiation; his teaching made him the spiritual father of Hubs and Jerome of Prag (1415), and so of the missionary church of the modern Moravians. His methods created "poor priests" and Lollards, who not only prepared England for the full noon of the Reformation, but have formed ensamples to modern missionaries. Finally, he first gave us the English Bible, which, more than its Hebrew and Greek originals, has become the model and even the basis of translations into all the vernaculars of nineteenth century heathendom. That which cost forty pounds sterling for one copy in 1414, when the decree of a persecuting Church and court went forth that all who read the Scriptures in the mother tongue should "forfeit land, cattle, life, and goods from their heirs for ever," has been carried by Wiclif's descendants over the world in three hundred vernaculars, in each of which it may be bought for a shilling. Truly the sound has gone out into all the world, but so far are we from the end of it that even the nineteenth...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Short History of Christian Missions: From Abraham and Paul to Carey, Livingstone, and Duff. To get started finding Short History of Christian Missions: From Abraham and Paul to Carey, Livingstone, and Duff, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt: ...to become the missionaries of Christ and Christian civilisation to the nations. The nineteenth century has become the missionary century, and English-speaking men and women of Great Britain and America, aided by their German cousins in lands under British influence, are its missionaries. John Wiclif (1320-1384) has a distinctly missionary interest not merely as the Morning Star of the Reformation. By his Yorkshire descent we might consider him the representative, as he was the successor, of the Scots missionaries sent by Columba into Northumbria, which they evangelized from Aidan's school of Lindisfarne. But historically he taught a purer gospel than even Luther long after him, especially against the subtler forms of the heresy of transubstantiation; his teaching made him the spiritual father of Hubs and Jerome of Prag (1415), and so of the missionary church of the modern Moravians. His methods created "poor priests" and Lollards, who not only prepared England for the full noon of the Reformation, but have formed ensamples to modern missionaries. Finally, he first gave us the English Bible, which, more than its Hebrew and Greek originals, has become the model and even the basis of translations into all the vernaculars of nineteenth century heathendom. That which cost forty pounds sterling for one copy in 1414, when the decree of a persecuting Church and court went forth that all who read the Scriptures in the mother tongue should "forfeit land, cattle, life, and goods from their heirs for ever," has been carried by Wiclif's descendants over the world in three hundred vernaculars, in each of which it may be bought for a shilling. Truly the sound has gone out into all the world, but so far are we from the end of it that even the nineteenth...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Short History of Christian Missions: From Abraham and Paul to Carey, Livingstone, and Duff. To get started finding Short History of Christian Missions: From Abraham and Paul to Carey, Livingstone, and Duff, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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