An inadvertent missiologist: Edward Gibbon and the science of mission
Edward Gibbon unintentionally inaugurated the science of mission (Missionswissenschaft), when he published in 1776 the first volume of his celebrated History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon included in his groundbreaking work a new approach to mission history that emphasized soci...
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Missiology
Year: 2016, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 20-32 |
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