International Review of Mission, April 1st, 1994
Vath, Alfons Van Hee, Louis
The possession of superior secular knowledge has repeatedly opened the door for the proclamation of the gospel -- one has only to think of missionary medicine or the educational enterprise. But never elsewhere has the knowledge and practice of one particular science played so dramatic a role as did Jesuit astronomical skills in seventeenth and eighteenth century China.
Reading this biography of the one who was arguably the most important of the Jesuit scientist--evangelists in Peking one is reminded of Barbara Tuchman's history of the fourteenth century. A Distant...
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