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Christian Misssios In China Before Morrison, W. G. Polack

Concordia Theological Monthly

The Late Medieval Mission under John de Monte Corvino.

The next entrance of Christianity into China came six and a half centuries after the beginning of the Nestorian missions, when the great Mongolian Empire had been established, when the Roman Papacy was in the height of its power, and when, as a result of the crusades, the interest of Western Europe in the East was still very much alive.

Christian Missions In China Before Morrison, Walter G. Polack

Concordia Theological Monthly

Less than a half century after Augustine of Canterbury began his work of Christianizing the Anglo-Saxons in England; nearly a half century before Boniface, the so-called Apostle of the Germans, was born; fully two hundred years before Ansgar, the Apostle of the North, began his work of founding the Christian Church among the Northmen; and long before Christianity had came to the Moravians, Bulgarians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Pomeranians, Prussians, Poles, Russians, and other people that make up the Western Christian world to-day, Christianity was brought to China, that far-fung land with its teeming millions of inhabitants, which in spite of all …