Missionary Scientists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Missionary Scientists write by Andres I. Prieto. This book was released on 2011-03-28. Missionary Scientists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first scientists of the New World
Nature and the Godly Empire
Nature and the Godly Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and the Godly Empire write by Sujit Sivasundaram. This book was released on 2005-11-17. Nature and the Godly Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.
Sojourners in a Strange Land
Sojourners in a Strange Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sojourners in a Strange Land write by Florence C. Hsia. This book was released on 2011-04-15. Sojourners in a Strange Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China.
Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690
Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690 write by Catherine Ballériaux. This book was released on 2016-02-05. Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610–1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early modern Catholic and Calvinist thought. The book aims to analyse the intellectual roots of fundamental ideas in Catholic and Calvinist missionary writings—among others idolatry, conversion, civility, and police—by examining the classical, Augustinian, neo-thomist, reformed Protestant, and contemporary European influences on their writings. Missionaries’ insistence on the necessity of reform, emphasising an experiential, practical vision of Christianity, led them to elaborate conversion strategies that encompassed not only religious, but also political and social changes. It was at the margins of empire that the essentials of Calvinist and Catholic soteriologies and political thought could be enacted and crystallised. By a careful analysis of these missiologies, the study thus argues that missionaries’ common strategies—habituation, segregation, social and political regulations—stem from a shared intellectual heritage, classical, humanist, and above all concerned with the Erasmian ideal of a reformation of manners.
An Introduction to the Science of Missions
An Introduction to the Science of Missions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to the Science of Missions write by Bavinck. This book was released on 1992-01-01. An Introduction to the Science of Missions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
