The Failure of the First Protestant Missionaries

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The Failure of the First Protestant Missionaries

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It’s usually said that Protestant and evangelical Christians made very little missionary effort in the 16th-18th centuries. In fact, there was much more than we remember. But they used strategies that look very alien to modern eyes: whether trying to spread ‘civilisation’ as a prerequisite for conversion, or seeing these efforts as part of a global apocalyptic conflict.
This lecture will introduce this series about these early missionary projects; why they mostly failed; and why they still matter.
A lecture by Alec Ryrie
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@robotniqueee 2 жыл бұрын

I can never not watch professor ryrie...and I say that as a complete atheist. He is just an amazing narrator of the history of the protestant faith.

@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 2 жыл бұрын

As I commented once earlier: _"Came for atheism. Stayed for Professor Ryrie."_

@robotniqueee 2 жыл бұрын

@@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 I'm snagging his book Unbelievers from my local library. Just put it and one other of his books on hold! ✓✓✓

@chriscoke2505 Жыл бұрын

Protestantism is not a faith but an internal degeneration towards atheism and secularism

@michaeljames4904 2 жыл бұрын

WOOHOO! He’s back!! Best Gresham lecturer bar none.

@Tom-sq2yy 2 жыл бұрын

Best voice EU

@alanblight9233 2 жыл бұрын

Within moments of Mr Ryrie speaking my attention is totally engrossed and so it remains till he concludes . Thanks again .

@strangelitgirl 2 жыл бұрын

You described it perfectly. I feel the same way! ❤️🔥❤️

@hazzardalsohazzard2624 2 жыл бұрын

I will always be happy to see talks by this guy.

@shift_reset 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man: I see an Alec Ryrie video, I click on it.

@williamfrancis5367 2 жыл бұрын

I see you are a man of culture as well.

@hannamakela6989 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant lecturer! As a sometime-university lecturer, I get too much pleasure out of these presentations to be as envious as I probably should. ;)

@polanve 2 жыл бұрын

The best of history, trying to understand how profoundly different things were!

@blitzkriegsebastian 2 жыл бұрын

He's back!

@tuomasronnberg5244 2 жыл бұрын

I like prof. Ryrie's presentation. He speaks clearly and with a logical progression, and uses elaborate yet understandable language.

@Mrch33ky 2 жыл бұрын

Yay! We're back in school with Professor Alec! :-)

@kenmoretoast 2 жыл бұрын

New ryrie just dropped!

@jintsfan 2 жыл бұрын

Bought his ‘Protestants’ book just last week.

@markharris1223 2 жыл бұрын

At my Catholic boys' grammar school in Manchester, I benefitted from the history lessons of Fr. 'Slim' Kerrigan, who chain-smoked his way through the syllabus in an eternal Ulster monotone. The only occasion on which this monotone varied, and that explosively, was when an unfortunate fellow scholar pronounced the word "protestant" phonetically. 'Slim' explained to the hapless boy that the first "t" was to to be pronounced as a "d", and "woe betide" any boy who committed this grave error in future. The same teacher, on another occasion, asked the class why Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth I. Horrified at the prospect of giving voice to what we all felt sure must be the answer, there was a long, excruciating silence. Eventually, 'Slim' broke the silence: "Ye fools! The woman was not married!".

@MadHatter42 Жыл бұрын

Why on earth would he insist on it being pronounced with a D? Is it part of the local dialect, or something?

@matthewkelly2399 2 жыл бұрын

Terrific. Keep them coming!

@blablabubles 2 жыл бұрын

Mistake at the beginning of the lecture. Christianity spread just as much east as west before Islam, probably being dominant in large sections of the silk road and the largest minority in the Persian empire.

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts 4 ай бұрын

But not for long.

@jimgraham6722 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the interesting lecture. About 40 years ago I met a very old Batak man who described his recollection of the tribe's first contact with a Dutch missionary Fr Yohanne, they ate him.

@ausbrum 2 жыл бұрын

The best thing they could have done

@CanadianAnglican 8 ай бұрын

I love these videos.

@frank327 2 жыл бұрын

A brilliant lecture by a brilliant lecturer.

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts 4 ай бұрын

It would be great to do a "history of muslim missions" series.

@TheDavidlloydjones 2 жыл бұрын

"...of one sort or another," a phrase which includes non-Christians and ex-Christians as two, perhaps the largest two, varieties of Christian.

@alecryrie8209 2 жыл бұрын

I think they try not to fall into that trap. The definition they use is simply people who choose to describe themselves as Christians - religious self-ID. So western 'nones' shouldn't be included. That still leaves you with everyone from Ethiopian Orthodox to Jehovah's Witnesses, which is enough variety to be going on with.

@RonJohn63 10 ай бұрын

8:13 The Puritans didn't try and convert the natives? 9:11 TBF, those early Dutch, Danish, etc colonies were big on *TRADE.* 52:56 Interesting question and response.

@akgelos17 2 жыл бұрын

Armenia was the first Christian Nation and constantly requested aid from the other Christian nations which they never received.

@HolyKhaaaaan 2 жыл бұрын

Part of that unfortunately was because the Armenians subscribed to miaphysitism.

@yossarianmnichols9641 2 жыл бұрын

We know from research the Vikings crossed the Atlantic before Columbus.

@jesusalvarez-cedron6581 2 жыл бұрын

ACME researchs

@Mrch33ky 2 жыл бұрын

And they brought Odin to the Natives.

@HolyKhaaaaan 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrch33ky many of them were Christian by this time. Erik the Red was.

@kingcrazymani4133 2 жыл бұрын

31:30. Well said. I may laugh for a few hours.

@YusupAchmadi 2 жыл бұрын

26:15 why ...

@bradweir6993 2 жыл бұрын

Christians of one franchise or other. 🤥

@ClassicTrevorn0101 2 жыл бұрын

The premise for religion is always one and the same it is used as a weapon.

@Noitartst Жыл бұрын

Like Marxists don't use documented bad behavior within religion as a weapon, themselves, and science, too? Atheists and Marxists are beyond arrogant, so who are they to judge?