Studies in Asian mission history, 1956-1998 / / by Arnulf Camps.

• Superior document: Studies in Christian mission, v. 25
• Author: Camps, Arnulf, 1925-
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Christian mission ; v. 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 337 pages)

In this volume the miscellaneous writings of Arnulf Camps are published. They deal with the activities of Catholic missionaries during the last five centuries in nine countries situated between Turkey and Japan. This research focussed on the discovery of hidden, unknown or forgotten sources. New insights were gained into: the reception of the Christian faith in China and Japan; the missionary efforts to enter the Mogul Empire; the composition of the first Sanskrit grammar by a western scholar; the controversial study of Islam by a Franciscan missionary in China; the vain attempt to enter Afghanistan by Mill Hill missionaries; the pioneering work of the founder of Catholic education in Kandy; the policy and practice of establishing local churches in China, India and Vietnam; and the missionary reform by the first Apostolic Delegate in China. Missiologists and historians will find in this book new material as well as new insights.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF LOCAL CHURCHES: Its Importance for the Development and the Future of the Church -- THE CATHOLIC MISSIONARY MOVEMENT FROM 1492 TO 1789 -- PERSIAN WORKS OF JEROME XAVIER, A JESUIT AT THE MOGUL COURT -- AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF FATHER CHRISTOVAL DE VEGA S.J.: Its Importance for the History of the Second Mission to the Mughal Court and for the Knowledge of the Religion of the Emperor Akbar -- FRANCISCAN MISSIONS TO THE MOGUL COURT -- DIE WIEDERENTDECKUNG DER ERSTEN ABENDLÄNDISCHEN SANSKRIT-GRAMMATIK DES P. HEINRICH ROTH S.J. -- DIE SCHRIFTEN DER JESUITEN-MISSIONARE JOHANN GRUEBER, HEINRICH ROTH UND ANTONIO CESCHI -- THE SANSKRIT GRAMMAR AND MANUSCRIPTS OF FATHER HEINRICH ROTH S.J. (1620–1668): INTRODUCTION -- THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: FROM FOREIGNNESS TO CONTEXTUALIZATION -- DAS CHRISTENTUM AUS CHINESISCHEM UND JAPANISCHEM BLICKWINKEL WÄHREND DER ‘JESUITISCHEN EPOCHE’ DER MISSIONSGESCHICHTE ASIENS (1549–1773) -- POLICY AND PRACTICE IN ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ASIA: CHINA – INDIA – VIETNAM -- THE RECEPTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA: A Neglected Field of Study in Interreligious Dialogue -- CELSO COSTANTINI, APOSTOLIC DELEGATE IN CHINA (1922–1933): The Changing Role of the Foreign Missionary -- THE FIRST FRANCISCANS IN THE EAST -- CASTORANOS ‘BREVIS APPARATUS ET MODUS AGENDI AC DISPUTANDI CUM MAHUMETANIS’ IN CHINA: Eine unbekannte Handschrift aus dem Jahr 1725 -- CAROLO ORAZI DA CASTORANO O.F.M. (1673–1755) ON THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD AND ON THE MASTER PHILOSOPHER CONFUCIUS -- MILL HILL MISSIONARIES IN AFGHANISTAN FROM 1879 UNTIL 1881 AND THEIR STAY IN QUETTA-BALUCHISTAN UNTIL 1883 -- FATHER FELICE ZOPPI DA CANNOBIO, O.F.M., IN SRI LANKA: 1853–1857. PIONEER OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN KANDY -- THIRTEEN UNKNOWN DOCUMENTS WRITTEN BY FATHER ZOPPI DA CANNOBIO O.F.M. IN SRI LANKA FROM 1853 TILL 1856 -- INDIEN IM BLICKWINKEL EUROPÄISCHER MISSIONARE -- A LETTER WRITTEN BY FR. PETRUS FRANCISCUS A SAORGIO, O.F.M., FROM AN INDIAN PRISON (1729) -- FLÄMISCHIE FRANZISKANER IN KONSTANTINOPEL, SMYRNA UND AUF DER INSEL CHIOS AM ENDE DES 17. JAHRHUNDERTS -- UNE LETTRE INÉDITE DU P. VALERIUS RIST, O.F.M., MISSIONNAIRE EN COCHINCHINE -- LUCIANO PETECH UND DIE KATHOLISCHE TIBET-MISSION IM 17. UND 18. JAHRHUNDERT -- STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN MISSION.