New Book from the Academy of American Franciscan History
FROM LA FLORIDA TO LA CALIFORNIA: Franciscan Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands
Edited by Timothy J. Johnson and Gert Melville
An important new collection of essays on the history of the US Borderlands
Essays:
1. Michael Cusato, “From the Conversion of the Heart to the Conversion of Souls: Franciscan Mission and Missiology in the Early Thirteenth Century” 2. Timothy J. Johnson, “That They May Love the Faith: Roger Bacon on Culture, Language, and Religion” 3. Anne Müller, “Turning to the East: Medieval Franciscan Missions to Asia” 4. Gert Melville, “Medieval Understandings of Foreign Cultures as Conditions for the Early Modern Takeover of America” 5. Catherine Scine, “Anti-Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval and Modern Evangelism and Eschatology” 6. Johannes Meier, “The Franciscans in the New World: Their Contribution to the Evangelization of North, Central, and South America” 7. Helmut Flachenecker, “Companions and Guides: Saints as Models for Missions” 8. David Hurst Thomas, “War and Peace on the Franciscan Frontier” 9. John E. Worth, “Catalysts of Assimilation: The Role of Franciscan Missionaries in the Colonial System of Spanish Florida” 10. Keith Ashley, “Grafting onto the Native Landscape: The Franciscan Mission System in Northeastern Florida” 11. Rebecca D. Gorman, “The Last Mission: San Juan del Puerto and its Role in the Aggregation and Demise of the Mocama Missions (1587-1702)” 12. Tamara Shircliff Spike, “Death and Death Ritual among the Timucua of Spanish Florida” 13. Lisa Marie Noetzel, “Friar Francisco Pareja: Missionary and Linguist” 14. Susan Richbourg Parker, “The Third Order of Saint Francis of Colonial Spanish Florida” 15. Jaime Lara, “Temples of the Son: Eschatological and Biblical Inspiration in the Franciscan Missionary Architecture” 16. David Rex Galindo, “Conferences on Theology and Indian Languages: A Program to Train Missionaries in New Spain” 17. Kristin Dutcher Mann, “Cycles of Theology and Indian Languages: A Program to Train Missionaries in New Spain” 18. Mariah Wade, “The Missionary Predicament: Conversion Practices in Texas, New Mexico, and the Californias” 19. José Refugio de la Torre Curiel, “Talking to the Desert: Franciscan Explorations and Narratives of Eighteenth-Century Arizona” 20. Jay T. Harrison, “Franciscan Concepts of the Congregated Mission and the Apostolic Ministry in the Eighteenth-Century Texas” 21. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, “Junipero Serra: From Mallorcan Preacher and Teacher to California Missionary” 22. Steven W. Hackel, “From Ahogado to Zorrillo: External Causes of Mortality in the California Missions”
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