Saints Who Sometimes Were: Utilizing Missionary Hagiography

Alan Neely

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A significant amount of mission history and theology is based on or derived from missionary biography. Many missionary biographies, however, are little more than hagiography. This essay examines the nature of hagiography; suggests how hagiography can be recognized, interpreted, and utilized; and calls for biographies that are shaped by historical reality rather than the perceived need to promote the missionary enterprise.

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