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Missionary Monks: An Introduction to the History and Theology of Missionary Monasticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

missionaries thought about the gospel in light of the concerns of Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist adherents. Of course, the church also related to the Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Islam. Finally, while the early and medieval church faced challenges from other religious and worldview systems, it also had to combat unsound doctrine developing within the church itself. During the second and third centuries, Gnosticism posed many challenges to Christian thought. Although modern scholars do not agree