Jesus commands the Church to its reason for existence: preaching Good News of salvation all (Mt 28:18-20). For restoration in Christ, magisterial theology mission Catholic emphasises this mandate. The Vatican II document Ad Gentes restricts "missionaries" "priests, Religious, or laymen" who are distinct from but sent "to all". Deacons excluded. As baptised and ordained Christians, permanent ...

Abstract This article offers a framework for historical analysis of the goals Protestant missionary projects. ‘Conversion’ in Protestantism is not clearly defined, liable to be falsified and may (in some views) require preparatory work various kinds before it can attempted. For these reasons, missionaries have adopted variety intermediate proxy their work, which argued organised onto four axes:...

Abstract In the Philippines, at fringes of Spanish empire, Society Jesus took on a difficult task, mission and pastoral work Island Mindanao, which was ruled mostly by Muslim polities. frontier zone between Islamic spheres influence, Jesuit missionaries, in symbiosis with native Christian troops, tried to expand their influence force Islam back. Thereby, priests participated actively defensive ...

Abstract Missionaries have flocked to the Kyrgyz Republic ever since collapse of Soviet Union. Evangelical-Pentecostal and Tablighi missions been particularly active on what they conceive as a fertile post-atheist frontier. But these project their message truth onto frontier, dangers frontier may overwhelm them. Based long-term ethnographic fieldwork amongst foreign local Tablighis evangelical-...

New Zealand was discovered by Captain Cook in 1769. Over the next ninety years, increasing numbers of medical practitioners visited and began to settle in what became a British colony. The first medical visitors were usually naval surgeons or served on board whaling ships. The major influx of doctors occurred at the behest of the New Zealand Company between 1840 and 1848, although Christian mis...

Drawing on documents produced between the early nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, mainly medical reports, this paper indicates the prevailing conceptions in the colonial medical community and local populations about leprosy, its manifestations, and how to deal with it. It focuses on the tensions concerning the practice of segregating lepers and its social and sanitation implications. To c...