RLG203H5 Lecture Notes - Catholic Religious Order, Francis Xavier, Evangelical Counsels
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What to do, how to handle it rejection of superstition helped to prepare the way for greater emphasis on reason/logic rational religion: but that is not what the protestants were trying to do ex. Missionaries brought with them a set of assumptions about christianity and about their european heritage to their travels: by 16th century, missionaries were mostly from europe. Jesuits were early missionaries, long before protestants thought to do missions what they did and the questions they ended up raising is remarkable. 6 years later francis xavier landed in japan. Whenever portuguese boat came to nagasaki celebration racial dimension to the phenomena of european missions in the case of chinese (also japanese) thought of these societies as honorary. Europeans they are white like us: had an advanced civilization they didn"t have a true religion, some jesuits compared the chinese/japanese to the romans.
