What was the conversion strategy for the New World? What difficulties did missionaries face?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Conversion strategy for the New World
1. the bottom-up strategy of conversion
2. after initial contact with local leaders, ambitious programs of
mass baptism and mass preaching rapidly followed
3. ordinary people's accessibility to the ministry of missionaries
made the New World an extraordinarily rich and rewarding mission field
a. tendency of some cultures to welcome and defer to strangers
b. missionaries could penetrate areas otherwise
untouched by any European presence
c. established an honored place in their host societies
B. Difficulties
1. deficient manpower
2. daunting terrain
3. linguistic and cultural differences
4. fear of backsliding and apostasy by new converts
a. in central Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, fears
that new cults disguised pagan practices convulsed the church
b. central Peru in 1609, a parish priest was condemned
for using excessive violence toward backsliders
5. new generation of clergy repeated the frustrations and
disillusionment of their predecessors
a. Indians seemed unable to forget their old rites for appeasing nature
b. Indians were attached to "idols" and to their own healers and seers
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