Although more than 800 boys studied there, only 12 became priests. Since a primary goal was to increase indigenous priestly vocations, Maryknoll opened a minor seminary in Puno, Peru, in 1944. Its Ecuadoran operations, however, were terminated in 1948.
Later Maryknoll expanded into El Salvador (1961), Venezuela (1966), Nicaragua (1971), Brazil (1976), and Honduras (1981). In 1942 Maryknoll also opened missions in Peru and Chile, and by the end of 1943, it had opened additional missions in Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador. So successful has its program been that between 19 alone it taught about 3,500 missioners. It offers instruction in Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara, and trains missionaries for Maryknoll and thirty other Catholic religious orders, as well as for several Protestant groups. Since the war forced Maryknoll to cut back on that commitment, it decided to expand to Latin America, where it established missions in Bolivia in 1942 and opened its Instituto de Idiomas in Cochabamba, the largest of the order's language schools.
entrance into World War II, Maryknoll mission activities were limited to the Far East.
In 1920 the Maryknoll Sisters officially became a separate congregation. Th e editors provide a useful introduc- tion (Cathy Ross) and an insightful afterword (Andrew Walls).In 1911 the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, popularly known as Maryknoll, was founded in Ossining, New York. Most authors come from the southern hemisphere, a majority from Africa, and all have cross-cultural experience just two are women. A second group of seven essays refl ects on varying global con- texts. Th e fi rst part contains fi ve pairs of essays on the fi ve marks of mission as articulated by the Anglican Communion. Stephen Neill once famously wrote, “If everything is mission, nothing is mission.” What then are we to make of missionary movements that have never been so multi-directional, disparate, and global as today? Can mission be as intentional as possible and also as broad as possible? Th ese essays inch towards that possibility. Maryknoll, New York, US, Orbis Books 2008. In the New Testament (Ken Gnanakan, India), as today (Zac Niringiye, Uganda), personal relationships among family and peers are pivotal in drawing people to Christ, while a personal encounter with God isīook Reviews / Mission Studies 27 (2010) 91–138 127 Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission. Th e editors provide a useful introduc- tion (Cathy Ross) and an insightful afterword (Andrew Walls).
Edited by Andrew Walls.īook Reviews / Mission Studies 27 (2010) 91–138 127 Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission. Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission.
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