Recognizing that the Christian writers of the “silent” second century focused mainly on other concerns, Historian Charles Chaney nevertheless finds evidences of evangelistic emphasis and world awareness in several categories of their documents. He organizes this data for us in a helpful manner and provides a new understanding of the surprising limitations on the churches' missionary perspective when the Christian movement was still young.
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