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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...

there was still a sense of mission and the church remained a central element. Summary This chapter has offered a baseline for comprehending mission in the early and medieval church. I began by offering a basic definition of mission from a biblical foundation. Next, I have briefly summarized the status of mission in the early church with attention to the geographical spread of Christianity, the political and religious context in which the church witnessed, the identity of early Christian missionaries,
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