A History of Christian Missions: Second Edition (Hist of the Church)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 528 pages
• Published by: Penguin Non-Classics
• Edition: 2nd Edition May 17, 1991
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0140137637
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0140137637
• Book Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 10.4 ounces

Product Description
Professor Neill's great and authoriatative survey looks at centuries of missionary activity, beginning with Christ and working through the Crusades and the colonization of Asia and Africa up to the present day.

Reader Reviews
In my reading of his, Neill not only has the intention to catalogue 'just the facts' into a coherent, singular historical narrative but also to examine whether or not Christian expansion and missionary activity is to be seen as a part of conquest and colonialism. This books conclusion says, quite eloquently, that mission and militant and political expansion work on completely different levels in history though at times mission becomes blurred by the latter, either through demogoguery or by its culpability in its endorsement and support of colonialism and/or imperialism. This is an interesting book which succeeds foremost in demonstrating that christian mission is pluriform, not exclusively European and not always attached to political ambitions of conquest and expansion.