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Opere di John Stewart

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1861
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Scotland
Luogo di nascita
Abercorn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
Luogo di residenza
Chennai, India
Istruzione
University and New College, Edinburgh
Breve biografia
Born at Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, 1861. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1892, missionary to Madras. [List of missionaries says he was ordained 1893.] Stationed at Rayapuram. Married, the same year, Elizabeth M. Jennings.

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Each chapter covers the Catholic church missionary work and persecution in different areas of the east.

The version I have was edited by John Holzmann and the entire book, read as a whole, doesn't flow well. Each chapter starts from the beginning of time for that area and so you may read about 655 AD in numerous chapters. I see why he did it this way, but a timeline would have been helpful, even beneficial.

Some chapters were far more interesting to me than others, such as chapters 9 and 10 regarding Buddhism and Mongols, respectively.

I'm not Catholic and so a lot of their church history is unfamiliar to me. I did however enjoy the appendices more than the actual book. I still wouldn't recommend the book though, unless you're Catholic and have a yearning to learn about Nastorius; the missionary and persecutions.

There were two errors that bothered me about the book. pg 84 and the mention of muslims (AD 522) before muhammad was born and pg. 89 I Corinthians1:18 seems to be loosely translated, because I couldn't find any version online worded the way it was online, and the so called devil is in the details and how it was worded makes a big difference.
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VhartPowers | Dec 27, 2018 |

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Opere
2
Utenti
101
Popolarità
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Voto
2.0
Recensioni
1
ISBN
215
Lingue
6

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