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Missionary Monks
An Introduction to the History and Theology of Missionary Monasticism
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eBook - ePub
Missionary Monks
An Introduction to the History and Theology of Missionary Monasticism
About this book
Missionaries go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, while monks live cloistered in a monastery and focus their lives on prayer and studying Scripture--correct? Not exactly. When we study the history of Christian mission, especially from around 500 to 1500 CE, the key missionaries that we constantly encounter are monks. In fact, if we don't have monks in this period then we have very little in the way of Christian mission. Our aim in this book is to examine the phenomenon of missionary monks--those who pursued both a monastic and missionary calling. We will meet the monks and monastic orders, narrate their journeys in mission, and evaluate their approaches to and thoughts about mission.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Early Christian Mission
- Chapter 2: Rise of Monasticism
- Chapter 3: Basil of Caesarea
- Chapter 4: Martin of Tours
- Chapter 5: Patrick of Ireland
- Chapter 6: Celtic Monks
- Chapter 7: Gregory the Great and Augustine of Canterbury
- Chapter 8: Willibrord and Boniface
- Chapter 9: Anskar
- Chapter 10: Cyril and Methodius
- Chapter 11: Church of the East
- Chapter 12: The Mendicants
- Chapter 13: The Jesuits
- Epilogue: Toward a Monastic Theology of Mission
- Bibliography