The Missionary Revival
I.  Historical Context
French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire (1789-1815)
Growth of internal missions
Edifying Letters 
Lyons 
Smaller world
Suez Canal (1869) 
Vatican I (1869-70)
Romanitc ideals
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)’s The Genius of Christianity
II.  Characteristics of early 19th-century missions
A.  Catholic
Franciscans, Domincians, Jesuits 
Episcopate (bishops)
“Our Indians are Here” 
Lay congregations
	prayer associations 
	weekly contributions
	New Edifying Letters 
		Association for the Propagation of the Faith (APF) in Lyons, 1822
		 Annals, appeals to even illiterate
	Background of misionaries
	Papacy
Ultramontanism 
papal infallibility.
Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (1622)
[Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]
[from 1982 "Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples”]
http://www.fides.org/eng/index.html
Gregory XVI (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari) (1765 - 1846)
Prefect of Propaganda 1826-31; Pope 1831 to 1846.
1839 In supremo
		1845 Neminem profecto 
Vatican I (1869-70)

Methods

B.  Protestant
	“Missionary societies” 
		missionaries’ background
	Methods
Henry Venn (1796-1873)
		Anglican, secretary of Church Missionary Society (1841-1872)
Missionary vs. pastor
	Triple autonomy (financial, administrative, missionary)
	
III.  Missionary motivations
1.  Salvation
2.  Competition 
3.  Civilization & Race	
William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) 
1833, Slavery Abolition Act 
IV.  Missions and empire
Tahiti 
Queen Pomaré expels Catholic missionaries (1842)
First Opium War (1834-1843)