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14 - Other Roman Catholic Missions

from PART THREE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2009

Stephen Neill
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Summary

The historian who essays to deal with the story of the Roman Catholic Church in India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is faced at the outset by a grave difficulty. It seems that there is not in existence any orderly and systematic account of this history such as could give general guidance in the planning of a survey of this period. In 1958 an Indian scholar, well versed in the history of the church in his country, wrote:

The missions in India, taken as a whole, have not yet been made the object of a serious and well-documented study. Since the history of the Indian [Roman Catholic] Church is no more than a long series of dissensions and conflicts, there exists on this subject an abundant polemical literature … which has little scientific value. Apart from such works, the various orders and congregations have left to us some well-written monographs on their respective missions.

The situation in 1982 is better, but not very much better, than it was in 1958. It still remains difficult, therefore, to work out a systematic and reasonably complete survey of the history and progress of the church in those difficult centuries.

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A History of Christianity in India
The Beginnings to AD 1707
 , pp. 333 - 363
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1984

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