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  Celtic Saints and their Areas of Influence 500-700

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  Celtic Saints and their Areas of Influence 500-700

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  Christianity arrived early in the British Isles: an Aristobulus is recorded as a ‘bishop’ there in the 1st century, soon after the Roman conquest. By the late 4th century, Ireland had produced the influential theologian Pelagius, who rejected predestination and believed in the doctrine of free will. The collapse of... More
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  Christian Missions in Africa 1800–60

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  Christian Missions in Africa 1800–60

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  The early African missionaries were often redoubtable explorers. The Lutheran Johannes Rebmann was the first European to see Mt Kilimanjaro (1849), but his reports of its snow-capped summit on the equator were dismissed as malaria-induced hallucination. The founding father of the modern missionary movement was the Englishman, William Carey, with... More
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  Christian Missions in Africa 1860–1914

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  Christian Missions in Africa 1860–1914

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  Until the 1830s, the dominant purpose of European colonization in Africa was the slave trade. Thereafter, the cargo changed but economic exploitation remained the heart of the enterprise, reaching peak intensity during the ‘Scramble for Africa’ initiated by the Treaty of Berlin (1885). The record of Christian missions through this... More
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  The Arrival of Christianity in Ireland 431 CE

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  The Arrival of Christianity in Ireland 431 CE

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  Palladius was sent by Pope Celestine as the first bishop ‘to the Irish believers in Christ’, so presumably the religion had some foothold prior to his arrival. St Patrick was hot on his heels, arriving from Britain the following year (432 CE), and was reinforced by the Saints Auxilius (Patrick’s... More