Missionary
A missionary ( from the Latin for " messenger ") is a member of a religion, which often seeks to spread in a foreign country, his faith, or on behalf of a missionary society, religiously motivated ensure social work. The term is meant, while the other missionary religions have their own names for this people group in the European-influenced culture, especially Christian missionaries.
Requirements
To go as a missionary in another country, it is necessary depending on the location and range of certain requirements are met:
- Appeal
- Conversion and experience of faith and community life
- Stable health and physical fitness
- Willingness to live in another culture and adapt accordingly
- Language skills or the willingness to acquire it
- Expertise
- Willingness to patient reintegration in the home country after a prolonged stay abroad
Training
Depending on the work order from the sending organization have different training missionaries. The biblical- theological part is usually a beträchtlichter part of it. In addition, more prosperous cross-cultural missionaries all additional qualifications in order to make her settle in the country easier.
Christianity
In Christianity, missionaries have an important meaning. The first missionary, who is mentioned in the Bible, Jonah (See Bible book of Jonah ). Jonah is commissioned by God (YHWH ) to preach to the people of Nineveh. The first apostles were missionaries preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Christianity is still a proselytizing religion. Biblical basis is called the Great Commission of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew ( cf. Mt 28:19 - 20a EU).
There is a basis for an activity as a missionary in a religious sense of mission that motivates missionaries, their faith and other individuals and peoples almost bring ( evangelism ). Another basis can be the charity and the absence of certain infrastructure in financially poor countries. So send some missionary societies, for example, doctors ( Mission doctors), nurses, artisans, teachers and university teachers ( agriculture, medicine, theology, inter alia, m. ) From. Often partner churches or other organizations have worked together from financially richer and poorer countries. The mission agencies that are members of the umbrella organization Evangelical Mission Societies " in Germany e Churches and Missions V. " second personnel only at the express request of their partner churches overseas.
Missionaries
Here is just a selection - more in category missionary.
Missionaries of the early Middle Ages with the Teutons and Celts
- Patrick, a missionary of the Irish in the 5th century
- Severin of Noricum (~ 410-482 ), missionary in what is now Austria
- Goar (~ 495-575 ), missionary in the Middle Rhine
- Columbanus of Luxeuil ( 540-615 ), missionary in the Frankish Empire and in today's Switzerland
- Aethelberht ( 552/560-616/618 ), the first Christian king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent
- Arbogast († 618), Bishop of Strasbourg
- Mellitus ( † 624), Bishop of London
- Justus of Canterbury († 627-631 ), Bishop of Rochester
- Black and White Ewald Ewald, Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Westphalia at the end of the 7th century
- Suitbert ( 637-713 ), the Anglo-Saxon missionary between the Ruhr and Lippe
- Willibrord (~ 658-739 ), the "Apostle of the Frisians "
- Winfried Boniface ( 672/673-754 ), " Apostle of the Germans "
- Virgil (~ 700-784 ), bishop of Salzburg
- Willehad (~ 740-789 ), missionary among the Frisians and Saxons
- Liudger (~ 742-809 ), Bishop of Münster
- Ansgar ( 801-865 ), Archbishop of Hamburg -Bremen
Catholic Missionaries
- Franz Xaver (1506-1552), missionary in Asia
- Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566), defender of the rights of the Indians
- Pierre Parisot (1703-1769), missionary in India
- Martin Dobritz Hofer (1717-1791), missionary in Paraguay
- Daniele Comboni (1831-1881), Founder of the Comboni Missionaries
- Damian de Veuster (1840-1889), " Apostle of the Lepers "
- Joseph came (1852-1908), missionary to China
- Luis Lintner (1940-2002), missionary in Brazil
Protestant missionaries
- John Eliot (~ 1604-1690 ), British, Anglicans, " Apostle of the Indians "
- Heinrich Plütschau (~ 1676-1752 ), German, evangelical, India
- Johann Ernst Gründler (1677-1720), German, evangelical, India
- Bartholomew Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), German, evangelical, India
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), American Congregationalist, American colonies
- John Wesley (1703-1791), English, Methodist, England, America
- Johann Martin Mack (1715-1784), German, Brethren, America
- Christian Friedrich Schwartz (1726-1798), German, Lutheran, South India
- Johannes Evangelista Gossner (1773-1858), evangelical, India
- Johann Christian Friedrich Heyer (1793-1873), German, and later Americans, Lutheran, India
- Felician Martin Zaremba (1794-1874), Russian, evangelical, Caucasus
- James Evans (1801-1846), British, Methodist, Canada
- Samuel Hebich (1803-1868), German, evangelical, India
- Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken (1810-1876), German, and later Americans, Lutheran, North America
- Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810-1881), German, Protestant, Eastern Africa
- David Livingstone (1813-1873), Scottish, reformed, Africa
- Hermann Gundert (1814-1893), German, evangelical, India
- Wilhelm Posselt (1815-1885), German, evangelical, South Africa
- James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), USA, Presbyterian, Japan
- Carl Hugo Hahn (1818-1895), German, Lutheran, South Africa
- Georg Gustav Ludwig August Mylius (1819-1887), German, evangelical, India
- Johannes Rebmann (1820-1876), German, evangelical, Africa
- Paulus Stephanus Cassel (1821-1892), German, Protestant, Jewish missionary
- William Wyatt Gill (1828-1898), a Congregationalist, Polynesia
- Rudolf Faltin (1830-1918), German, Protestant, Jewish missionary
- Christian Hornberger (1831-1881), German, evangelical, West Africa
- Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), English, Methodist, China
- Hermann Herlitz (1834-1920), German, evangelical, Australia
- Bräuninger Moritz (1836-1860), German, evangelical, North America, is regarded as a martyr
- August Schreiber (1839-1903), German, evangelical, Sumatra
- Heinrich Schröder (1850-1883), German, evangelical, Natal ( South Africa ), is a martyr
- Johann Flierl (1858-1947), German, evangelical, Australia & New Guinea.
- John H. Weeks (1861-1924), British, Baptist, Africa
- Emil Schiller (1865-1945), German, evangelical, Japan.
- Traugott Bachmann (1865-1948), German, Moravian Church, Tanzania
- Karl Segebrock (1872-1896), German - Balt, evangelical, Tanzania, is regarded as a martyr
- Ewald Ovir (1873-1896), German - Balt, evangelical, Tanzania, is regarded as a martyr
- Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930), German, evangelical, China
- Annie C. Funk (1874-1912), USA, Mennonite, India
- Ernst Jakob Christoffel (1876-1955), German, evangelical, Asia
- Edwin William Smith (1876-1957), British, Methodist, Africa
- Zöckler Theodor (1867-1949), German, Protestant, Eastern Galicia
- Arno Lehmann (1901-1984), German, evangelical, India
- Emil Fischbacher (1903-1933), Scottish, Protestant, China
- Peter Beyer House ( * 1929), German, evangelical, South Africa
- Manfred Bönig (* 1941), German, Free Church, Africa